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X-Authentication-Warning: berenice.lee: mikael owned process doing -bs
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 23:18:26 +0100 (CET)
From: Mikael Ylikoski <my AT post DOT utfors DOT se>
X-X-Sender: mikael AT berenice DOT lee
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Incorrect return values from sendto
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211252319530.8626-100000@berenice.lee>
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There is a bug in sendto in cygwin-1.3.16 which can cause an uninitialized 
value to be returned.

--- fhandler_socket.cc.orig     Mon Nov 25 23:15:37 2002
+++ fhandler_socket.cc  Mon Nov 25 23:16:32 2002
@@ -862,9 +862,9 @@
   DWORD ret;
 
   if (!winsock2_active)
-    res = ::sendto (get_socket (), (const char *) ptr, len,
-                   flags & MSG_WINMASK,
-                   (to ? (const struct sockaddr *) &sin : NULL), tolen);
+    res = ret = ::sendto (get_socket (), (const char *) ptr, len,
+                         flags & MSG_WINMASK,
+                         (to ? (const struct sockaddr *) &sin : NULL), tolen);
   else
     {
       WSABUF wsabuf = { len, (char *) ptr };

/Mikael


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