Re: [Haskell-cafe] ghc socket weirdness

Tim Newsham writes:

FreeBSD/7.0 amd64:

GHCi, version 6.8.2: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help Loading package base ... linking ... done. Prelude> :module +Network Prelude Network> listenOn $ PortNumber 8765 Loading package parsec-2.1.0.0 ... linking ... done. Loading package network-2.1.0.0 ... linking ... done. *** Exception: getAddrInfo: does not exist (servname not supported for ai_socktype)

(same error when compiled).

Anyone seen this before? I have multiple NICs, could that be confusing listenOn (does it not just bind on 0.0.0.0?)

ghc 6.8.2 has the same problem on NetBSD/i386, it fixed with ghc 6.8.3: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2103 -- jungle