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From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
To: Scott McPeak <smcpeak@coverity.com>
Cc: bug-guile@gnu.org
Subject: Re: socket examples say INADDR_LOCALHOST rather than INADDR_LOOPBACK
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:30:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ocoq245e.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AC2A6AB.7090105@coverity.com> (Scott McPeak's message of "Tue,  29 Sep 2009 17:30:35 -0700")

Scott McPeak <smcpeak@coverity.com> writes:

> In the documentation for Guile's 'connect' call:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/docs-1.8/guile-ref/Network-Sockets-and-Communication.html
>
> it gives examples:
>
>   (connect sock AF_INET INADDR_LOCALHOST 23)
>   (connect sock (make-socket-address AF_INET INADDR_LOCALHOST 23))
>
> However, the correct address is INADDR_LOOPBACK, not
> INADDR_LOCALHOST. The former is not defined:
>
> guile> (inet-ntoa INADDR_LOOPBACK)
> "127.0.0.1"
> guile> (inet-ntoa INADDR_LOCALHOST)
> [...]
> ABORT: (unbound-variable)

Thanks for the report, I've fixed these.

       Neil




      reply	other threads:[~2009-10-01 21:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-30  0:30 socket examples say INADDR_LOCALHOST rather than INADDR_LOOPBACK Scott McPeak
2009-10-01 21:30 ` Neil Jerram [this message]

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