Noah Lavine <noah.b.lav...@gmail.com> writes: > Hello all, > > I think there's a bug in Guile's Posix networking capabilities. I > first noticed it a few days ago when I couldn't get the example web > server to work on my system (Mac OS X 10.6). I was getting an error > from the bind command saying "can't assign requested address". I > assumed it was a system configuration problem until I discovered that > an equivalent Python program could bind a socket without trouble. > > The full story is at > http://serverfault.com/questions/231941/why-cant-i-bind-to-127-0-0-1-on-mac-os-x > (I know the Python program listed is not quite identical to the Scheme > one, but I tried it with an actually identical Scheme program and > still got the same error.) Interestingly enough, I was able to bind a > socket in Guile if I specified INADDR_ANY as its address instead of > 127.0.0.1. > > I hope to work on this soon, but I thought I'd ask on this list if > anyone has an idea what might be causing this. > It would be interesting to see the output of a strace-like tool on both the working Python program and the equivalent failing Guile program. Apparently (according to the Interwebs), on OS X this tool is called "dtruss".
Regards, Rotty -- Andreas Rottmann -- <http://rotty.yi.org/>
