Subject: garbage at sockaddr_in.sin_zero
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Shin'ichiro TAYA <taya@sm.sony.co.jp>
List: current-users
Date: 10/22/2000 13:10:49
Following program failes because there are garbages in in.sin_zero.
Should I clear in.sin_zero? Is it documented somewhere?
Or is it a bug of library or kernel?

-taya

#include	<stdio.h>
#include	<sys/types.h>
#include	<sys/socket.h>
#include	<netinet/in.h>

main()
{
	int	s;
	struct sockaddr_in	in;

	if((s = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) < 0){
		perror("socket");
		exit(1);
	}

	in.sin_len = sizeof(in);
	in.sin_family = AF_INET;
	in.sin_port = 0;
	in.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_LOOPBACK);

	if(bind(s, (struct sockaddr *)&in, sizeof(in))){
		perror("bind");
		exit(1);
	}
}