Debian bug report logs - #1741
getservbyport doesn't work

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Date: Mon, 23 Oct 95 18:10 GMT
From: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>
To: Debian bugs submission address <debian-bugs@pixar.com>
Subject: getservbyport doesn't work

Package: libc
Version: 4.6.27

chiark:~> cat t.c
#include <netdb.h>
int main(void) {
  printf("%s\n",getservbyport(23,"tcp")->s_name);
  return 0;
}
chiark:~> gcc t.c
chiark:~> ./a.out 
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
chiark:~> gcc -g t.c
chiark:~> gdb a.out 
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(gdb) print getservbyport(23,"tcp")
You can't do that without a process to debug
(gdb) run
Starting program: /u/ijackson/a.out 

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x109d in main () at t.c:3
3         printf("%s\n",getservbyport(23,"tcp")->s_name);
(gdb) print getservbyport(23,"tcp")
$1 = (struct servent *) 0x0
(gdb) 

getservbyport is returning NULL inappropriately, so the test program
dereferences zero and dumps core.

On a SunOS4 machine:
grus:~/junk> ./a.out 
telnet
grus:~/junk> 

Ian.