From: fukumoto@...
Date: 2004-01-20T23:06:34+09:00
Subject: Re: recvfrom(2) error on OS X 10.3.2


With regard to [ruby-talk:89962], I glanced through the code and it
looks like a bug in ext/socket.c


						FUKUMOTO Atsushi
						fukumoto@nospam.imasy.or.jp


Index: socket.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /src/ruby/ext/socket/socket.c,v
retrieving revision 1.110
diff -u -r1.110 socket.c
--- socket.c	10 Jan 2004 17:52:38 -0000	1.110
+++ socket.c	20 Jan 2004 13:56:51 -0000
@@ -416,6 +416,7 @@
     char buf[1024];
     socklen_t alen = sizeof buf;
     VALUE len, flg;
+    long buflen;
     long slen;
     int fd, flags;
 
@@ -430,13 +431,13 @@
     }
     fd = fileno(fptr->f);
 
-    slen = NUM2INT(len);
-    str = rb_tainted_str_new(0, slen);
+    buflen = NUM2INT(len);
+    str = rb_tainted_str_new(0, buflen);
 
   retry:
     rb_thread_wait_fd(fd);
     TRAP_BEG;
-    slen = recvfrom(fd, RSTRING(str)->ptr, slen, flags, (struct sockaddr*)buf, &alen);
+    slen = recvfrom(fd, RSTRING(str)->ptr, buflen, flags, (struct sockaddr*)buf, &alen);
     TRAP_END;
 
     if (slen < 0) {