Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
Simon Marlow wrote:
The test net001 from the network package is failing on my RedHat 9 box, so I went investigating. Bear in mind I'm completely ignorant of IPV6. This test invokes
Network.listenOn (PortNumber 22222)
and gets:
socket: unsupported operation (Address family not supported by protocol)
This machine has getaddrinfo(), so the IPV6 support is enabled.
It appears that Red Hat 9's IPv6 support is completely broken. I think the simplest thing to do about this is to make an explicit check for RH9 in the configure script and turn off IPv6 support if we detect it. Red Hat EOLed RH9 years ago, so I don't think investing much effort in it is warranted.
Does this seem reasonable?
Obviously it's not worth investing a lot of effort in getting this working. I should really upgrade the OS on this box. My main concern was that there wasn't a real bug lurking. Cheers, Simon