[Issue 1971] Any SocketException causes program to segfault

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http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1971





------- Comment #1 from d at brian.codekitchen.net  2008-04-25 13:07 -------
Looks like I oversimplified the problem -- see man page for strerror_r at
http://linux.die.net/man/3/strerror_r

There are two incompatible versions of strerror_r, the POSIX standard one
returns an int and always stores the error string in the supplied buffer. The
GNU specific version behaves as Phobos currently assumes, returning a char *
and maybe-or-not using the supplied buffer.

The POSIX standard behavior is available in GNU through a #define macro. Note
that other platforms such as OS X only support the POSIX version, so I'd argue
that for portability the POSIX version should be used in Phobos, or the
differences should be abstracted in the D code.


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