Re: [9front] ape/bsd: Enable setting the local address with bind

[Benjamin Riefenstahl <b.riefenstahl@turtle-trading.net>]

Hi Ori,

Benjamin Riefenstahl writes:
> I often take my time myself ;-)

Again this has taken some time, sorry. 

> I will have to create some test cases to see what works and what
> doesn't.

That's what I have done now, see
<https://git.sr.ht/~cc_benny/test-socket/tree>.

I append the results, a log from Linux as a reference, one with the
current 9front (9front-front.log) and one with my patch
(9front-patch.log).

Next for me is refining the patch.  

> Ori writes:
>> And I see no specification that describes what should be done with
>> negative ports in the sockets world, so I can only assume that this is
>> a bug.
>
> I/we should probably just make negative ports an error. 

Turns out negative ports do not occur with BSD sockets because the
numbers get filtered through 'htons' which returns 'unsigned short',
naturally.

I will drop considerations of negative ports in my patch.

Benjamin Riefenstahl writes:
>>> The documentation in the man page ip(3) for the control commands
>>> "bind" and "announce" does not mention the local address, should that
>>> be fixed, too?

I will include that in my next version. 

Thanks, benny