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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: binding sockets
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Date: 14 Sep 90 20:54:15 GMT
References: <ERAN.90Sep14115242@elaine7.stanford.edu>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
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In article <ERAN.90Sep14115242@elaine7.stanford.edu> eran@elaine7.stanford.edu (eran yehudai) writes:
: I am trying to use bind() to create an entry in the file system for a
: socket. I find that a socket special file is created, but its name is
: only composed of the first two letters of the name I pass the system.
: The same phenomena occurs on both DEC3100 and a NeXT. Any ideas?

I suspect you're calling bind with two arguments instead of three, and
the stack garbage happens to have a value of 2.

Larry Wall
lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov