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. Thanks, Noah
