if python is compiled with --disable-ipv6, AND the
host has ipv6 enabled. Then calling

python2.2 -c "import socket; print
socket.gethostbyaddr('::0')"

you get a

Segmentation fault

This is caused by Python copying the V6 information
returned by the OS into the V4 struct of Python.See the
attached diff for socketmodule.c for a fix.

Alternatively, one could move the memcpy at the end of
setipaddr() into the switch, so that if the system
returns "unknown address family", the invalid copy is
not executed.

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We found out a little more: after applying the fix, we get
"unsupported address family" exceptions for IPV6 addresses,
but also we cannot open sockets any more ("could not
connect" exceptions by urllib for any URL). So the fix is
not complete. BTW, the bug appears with Python 2.2, Python
2.0 and 2.1 _do_ work on the same machine.

Another piece of information: we tried to --enable-ipv6 on
that machine (SuSE 7.0, gcc 2.9.95), and got this:

gcc -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I.
-I./Include -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
-DUSE_SSL -I/netsite/include -I/netsite/include/openssl -c
./Modules/socketmodul

./Modules/socketmodule.c: In function `makesockaddr':
./Modules/socketmodule.c:733: structure has no member named
`sin6_scope_id'
./Modules/socketmodule.c: In function `getsockaddrarg':
./Modules/socketmodule.c:846: structure has no member named
`sin6_scope_id'
./Modules/socketmodule.c: In function `PySocket_getnameinfo':
./Modules/socketmodule.c:2598: structure has no member named
`sin6_scope_id'
make: *** [Modules/socketmodule.o] Error 1 

Don't know whether that is SuSE 7.0's fault.

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Jürgen, can you please try the attached sock.diff? This is a
slightly corrected version of Jörg's patch (IMO). I could
not observe the problem you've seen with Jörg's patch on a
SuSE 8.0 installation.

As for IPv6 not working on a SuSE 7.0 system: This is very
possible. Python requires the RFC2553 API, it might be that
this was not available in the glibc version that shipped
with SuSE 7.0.

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Martin,  the attachment didn't make it to the system, it seems.

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Sorry about that; the patch is attached now.

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Martin, I took your fix and changed the "sizeof(addr)" to
"sizeof(*addr)" ot the explicit type. With this combined
patch my testcases work again. 

./python -c "import urllib;
urllib.urlopen('https://kalender.web.de/').read(256)"

(of course, you could use any rechable ssl webserver)

Could you test my testcase with your version? If it fails,
could you
test the "socketmodule.c.diff2" patch?


Thanks for your help.

    Joerg

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Thanks for the patch; committed as socketmodule.c 1.238 and
1.200.6.7.