FWD: Re: [ECOS] Problems with init_all_network_interfaces

[Nick Garnett]

Andrew Lunn <andrew.lunn@ascom.ch> writes:

> > Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:10:48 +0200
> > From: Eric Doenges <Eric.Doenges@DynaPel.de>
> > To: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
> > Subject: Re: [ECOS] Problems with init_all_network_interfaces
> > 
> > I've managed to figure out what is going wrong here -- I have several
> > configurations of eCos I'm working on, and I specified the wrong
> > path, so the wrong 'extras.o' (without the FreeBSD stack) got linked in.
> > Due to the way this is done with Equator's tools, it did link with the
> > correct libtarget, making this error difficult to detect.
> > 
> > The crash was then caused by the function 'socket' in
> > io/fileio/current/src/socket.cxx, which returns an invalid cyg_file
> > instead of an error when no networking stack exists (nstab is empty).
> 
> 
> This patch should solve this problem. socket will return EINVAL.

Actually, I think it would be better to return EPROTONOSUPPORT, which
is what you would get if there were entries in the table but none of
them supported the protocol requested.


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Nick Garnett                    eCos Kernel Architect
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