Bug#564232: bind behaviour different between linux and freebsd ?

[Xavier Grave <grave@ipno.in2p3.fr>]

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De: "Jan-Benedict Glaw" jbglaw@lug-owl.de
A: "Xavier Grave" grave@ipno.in2p3.fr, 564232@bugs.debian.org
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 11:24:15 +0100
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> On Sat, 2010-01-09 02:50:23 +0100, Xavier Grave grave@ipno.in2p3.fr 
> wrote:
>> The following C code give different results on kfreebsd amd64 on one side
>> and sparc/powerpc/ on the other side
>> for kfreebsd amd64 :
>> xavier@debian:~$ ./bind_socket_c 
>> sin len 16
>> res -1
>> and
>> for sparc :
>> ./xavier@canis-latrans:~$ ./bind_socket_c 
>> sin len 16
>> res 0
>> for powerpc :
>> xavier@power5:~$ ./bind_socket_c 
>> sin len 16
>> res 0
>> code used :



>> problem doesn't seem any more specific to Ada ?
> 
> `errno' should contain more detailed information about why it failed.
> Also, keep in mind that "sin.sin_port = 5786" is probably not what you
> want, think of network byte order! Sparc and PPC are big endian and I
> guess that amd64 is little endian.

I have tested the same code (both Ada and c) on Debian GNU/Linux i386 and
results are similar to sparc and powerpc
But I will try with the good network bytes order on FreeBSD, thanks for the
tip

xavier