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From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
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To: Jonathan Graehl <jonathan@graehl.org>
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Subject: Re: Deamon with perl
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Jonathan Graehl wrote:
> 
> > > $local_socket = sockaddr_in($port, inet_aton(INADDR_ANY) );
> > >
> > > to
> > >
> > > $local_socket = sockaddr_in($port,INADDR_ANY );
> > >
> > > now is working fine on FBSD 3.x.
> >
> > Ah.  Ick.  Perl.  Bleh.
> 
> He'd have the same problem in C (except that the compiler would catch it -
> INADDR_ANY is not a string, I guess that is your point?)

Yeah, it should either check the type or convert it appropriately: the C
way, or the Python way. ;^)

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Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
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