Bug#501411: Took a quick look at this

[Russ Allbery]

"Michael Casadevall" <sonicmctails at gmail.com> writes:

> Taking a closer look at the FTBFS, and the code, it seems the code is
> trying to open two sockets, and then send data between both of them; I
> misspoke when I said the internet, and should have said network
> sockets, I'm not sure if the grid computers would prevent a socket
> from being opened properly, looking at the test code, it is not
> specifying a port (although that might not be necessary with
> socketpair.
>
> socketpair(Rdr, Wtr, AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, PF_UNSPEC);
>
> It's opening with the sockets with those flags. Any ideas?

This is basically equivalent to pipe() but with larger buffers on many
hosts.  If that's all the code is doing, it really should succeed.  It
doesn't require any particular network configuration on the host.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>