netdev - Re: net/ipv4: commit d0733d2e29b breaks rtorrent

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Date:	Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:53:29 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Reinhard Max <max@...e.de>
Cc:	Fabienne Ducroquet <fabiduc@...il.com>,
	Marcus Meissner <meissner@...e.de>, sundell.software@...il.com,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: net/ipv4: commit d0733d2e29b breaks rtorrent

On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:58:24 +0200 (CEST)
Reinhard Max <max@...e.de> wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 at 16:51, Fabienne Ducroquet wrote:
> 
> > If I understand correctly, it is trying to bind an IPv6 address to a 
> > socket expecting an IPv4 address, so it's a bug in 
> > libtorrent/rtorrent, but it was not visible before because an 
> > INADDR_ANY bind is not a problem for rtorrent?
> 
> Yes, exactly.
> 
> 
> cu
>  	Reinhard

You can find code here http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/
but it is in C++ so there is an abnormally high indirection factor
between reality of the bug and the code as written.

Did you try contacting the developer?
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