Re: [PATCH] fix non interruptable hang in svn client when connecting

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 03:22:39PM -0400, David James wrote:
> > server.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("www.google.com");
> It is probably not a good idea to run this code, because it sends a
> potentially infinite number of requests to www.google.com. May I
> suggest targeting 127.0.0.1 instead, for test scripts?

Actually, it won't, as inet_addr can't do DNS lookups, only convert IP
addresses, so it returns -1 (255.255.255.255) instead. I'm not sure what
TCP/IP connections to the broadcast address are supposed to do.

Regards,
Malcolm

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Received on Thu Aug 25 21:39:15 2005