Bug#670722: perl-base: IO::Socket::UNIX::hostpath dies on kFreeBSD

[Nicholas Bamber]

On 06/05/12 22:01, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 05:26:45PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
>> 2012/5/6 Steven Chamberlain<steven at pyro.eu.org>:
>>> It looks to me like GNU/kFreeBSD uses the sys/un.h provided by eglibc,
>>> with a sockaddr_un different to FreeBSD's, so the test should rather be:
>>>
>>> #   if defined(__linux__) || defined(__GLIBC__)
>>
>> Note that this is true for the declaration (which is matters here
>> AFAICT) but it's not for the actual structure, see #645527.
>>
>>> As for GNU/Hurd, my guess is that it doesn't have that header at all and
>>> skips the entire #ifdef I_SYS_UN block.  So it shouldn't need to be
>>> considered here.
>>
>> Actually ISTR GNU/Hurd had zero-length sun_path too.  CCing debian-hurd...
>
> Good point. The test does fail on hurd-i386 too.
>
> Dominic.
>

It's not really an issue on Hurd as it is more of an OS limitation than 
a bug.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-12/msg00000.html