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Re: Regression in svnserve: IPv6 causes IPv4 not to work [was: Branching for 1.3.]

From: Sigfred Håversen <bsdlist_at_mumak.com>
Date: 2005-09-23 08:18:13 CEST

Michael Sweet wrote:
> Sigfred Håversen wrote:
>
>> ...
>> The IPV6_V6ONLY socket option will not solve this on OpenBSD,
>> as may be seen from ip6(4):
>> ...
>> This is due to security concerns:
>
> > ...
>
> Too bad, since on AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, MacOS X, Solaris, and Linux you
> can't bind to [:::] and 0.0.0.0 on the same port - you'll get an
> "address already in use" error...
>
> In any case, adding the --ipv4-only switch will fix things for
> OpenBSD users. To support both IPv4 and IPv6, they'll just have to
> run two copies of svnserve (assuming they don't get the same error
> as on all those other OS's I mentioned...)
>

Attached a patch for the --ipv4-only variant. On OpenBSD
you can run two copies of svnserve, one for IPv4 and one for IPv6.

/Sigfred

Index: subversion/svnserve/main.c
===================================================================
--- subversion/svnserve/main.c (revision 16192)
+++ subversion/svnserve/main.c (working copy)
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@
 #define SVNSERVE_OPT_FOREGROUND 258
 #define SVNSERVE_OPT_TUNNEL_USER 259
 #define SVNSERVE_OPT_VERSION 260
+#define SVNSERVE_OPT_IPV4_ONLY 261
 
 static const apr_getopt_option_t svnserve__options[] =
   {
@@ -119,6 +120,7 @@
     {"threads", 'T', 0, N_("use threads instead of fork")},
 #endif
     {"listen-once", 'X', 0, N_("listen once (useful for debugging)")},
+ {"ipv4-only", SVNSERVE_OPT_IPV4_ONLY, 0, N_("use IPv4 only")},
     {0, 0, 0, 0}
   };
 
@@ -257,6 +259,7 @@
   const char *host = NULL;
   int family = APR_INET;
   int mode_opt_count = 0;
+ svn_boolean_t use_ipv4_only = FALSE;
 
   /* Initialize the app. */
   if (svn_cmdline_init("svn", stderr) != EXIT_SUCCESS)
@@ -368,6 +371,10 @@
         case 'T':
           handling_mode = connection_mode_thread;
           break;
+
+ case SVNSERVE_OPT_IPV4_ONLY:
+ use_ipv4_only = TRUE;
+ break;
         }
     }
   if (os->ind != argc)
@@ -407,18 +414,21 @@
      create IPV6 sockets. */
 
 #if APR_HAVE_IPV6
+if (!use_ipv4_only)
+ {
 #ifdef MAX_SECS_TO_LINGER
- /* ### old APR interface */
- status = apr_socket_create(&sock, APR_INET6, SOCK_STREAM, pool);
+ /* ### old APR interface */
+ status = apr_socket_create(&sock, APR_INET6, SOCK_STREAM, pool);
 #else
- status = apr_socket_create(&sock, APR_INET6, SOCK_STREAM, APR_PROTO_TCP,
+ status = apr_socket_create(&sock, APR_INET6, SOCK_STREAM, APR_PROTO_TCP,
                              pool);
 #endif
- if (status == 0)
- {
- apr_socket_close(sock);
- family = APR_UNSPEC;
- }
+ if (status == 0)
+ {
+ apr_socket_close(sock);
+ family = APR_UNSPEC;
+ }
+ }
 #endif
   
   status = apr_sockaddr_info_get(&sa, host, family, port, 0, pool);

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