FYI, I was poking at a new maintainer's packages and ran across this problem....looking into it now....
C ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 02:50:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher C. Chimelis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jimmy O'Regan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Package help requested On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > > name: gnut > > desc: Command line gnutella client > > license: GPL > > Didn't get to check the package too much, but did check the > software. Seems to have problems when finding an interface on Alpha > (segfaults). I'll look into it and hopefully can supply a patch. FYI, it's not gnut's problem on alpha that causes this, but rather a problem elsewhere. The address family isn't getting set for TCP/IP addressed interfaces, so gnut's interface/address iteration code can't seem to find an interface that has an AF_INET address family set (and then tries to memcpy from empty areas in memory, which is always bad). I'm looking into this and it *might* even be a kernel problem, believe it or not. Certainly would explain a few other similar problems that I've been having with other packages (nmap, strobe, sniffit, etc). At any rate, I tried commenting out the code that ignors the loopback interface and it seems to work ok so far. C
