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Article #48Re: Gethostbyname Error
From: Andrew Cherenson
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 00:22
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 00:22
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The following code doesn't coredump for me on 4.0.5:
Made it past gethostbyname
Made it past gethostbyname
It's important to make sure hp isn't NULL before using it.
In article <1992Dec21.181140.21504@news2.cis.umn.edu> coyle@mars.cs.umn.edu (Mark Stephan Coyle) writes:
>I have made a simple example of the code I am using, it still exhibits the
>same problem:
>
>#include <sys/types.h>
>#include <sys/socket.h>
>#include <netinet/in.h>
>#include <netdb.h>
>#include <stdio.h>
>#include <time.h>
>#define TRUE 1
>#define M_SOCKET 0x00000001
>int data[1024];
>struct hosttable {
>char hname[40];
>int worm;
>};
>clock_t start,end;
>
>
>
>int main(int argc, char **argv)
>{
> int sock ;
> int i ;
> struct sockaddr_in server;
> struct hostent *hp, *gethostbyname();
> char buf[1024];
> char host[40];
> char mtype;
> char mcontent[40];
> struct hosttable htable[5];
> sock=socket(AF_INET,SOCK_DGRAM,0);
> if(sock<0) {
> perror("opening stream socket");
> exit(0);
> };
> server.sin_port = htons(atoi(argv[1]));
>
> server.sin_family=AF_INET;
> start=end=clock();
> while(TRUE){
> start=end=clock();
> printf("Made it past gethostbyname \n");
> hp=gethostbyname("dexter.psych.umn.edu");
> printf("Made it past gethostbyname \n");
> exit(1);
> bcopy(hp->h_addr, &(server.sin_addr.s_addr),hp->h_length);
> if(connect(sock,&server,sizeof(server))<0){
> perror("connecting datagram socket");
> }
> if(write(sock,data,sizeof(data))<0)
> perror("writing on stream socket");
> end=clock();
> }
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!sgiblab!sgigate!sgi!xingping.esd.sgi.com!arc From: arc@xingping.esd.sgi.com (Andrew Cherenson) Subject: Re: Gethostbyname Error Message-ID: <tt4p428@sgi.sgi.com> Sender: arc@xingping.esd.sgi.com Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 00:22:31 GMT Lines: 61