From: WATANABE Hirofumi <eban@...>
Date: 2002-04-02T15:03:36+09:00
Subject: Re: getaddrinfo: invalid value for hints ?

Hi,

"Nikolay Elkov" <nick@sarion.co.jp> writes:

:Just got the latest ruby snapshot, 04/01, compiled it on cygwin. I get the
:following error:
:
:irb(main):003:0> p TCPSocket.gethostbyname('localhost')
:SocketError: getaddrinfo: invalid value for hints.
:        from (irb):3:in `gethostbyname'
:        from (irb):3
:irb(main):004:0>
:
:What is that supposed to mean and how do I get it to work?

Try this patch.

Index: ext/socket/socket.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /src/ruby/ext/socket/socket.c,v
retrieving revision 1.71
diff -u -1 -r1.71 socket.c
--- ext/socket/socket.c	2002/03/28 09:17:54	1.71
+++ ext/socket/socket.c	2002/04/02 06:00:04
@@ -596,2 +596,3 @@
 	hintsp = &hints;
+	MEMZERO(&hints, struct addrinfo, 1);
 	hints.ai_family = PF_UNSPEC;


-- 
eban