---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Miguel Enrique Cobá Martinez miguel.coba@gmail.com Date: 2009/8/24 Subject: [Pharo-project] Networking on images running on 64 bit OSes. To: Pharo pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr

Is someone working on issues:

http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=1031 http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=961 http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=794

Without them fixed the in-image network doesn't work.

CPU: intel CPU arch: x86 OS: Debian GNU/Linux i386 OS arch: 32 bits works: YES

CPU: intel CPU arch: x86_64 OS: Debian GNU/Linux amd64 OS arch: 64 bits works: NO

CPU: amd CPU arch: x86_64 OS: Debian GNU/Linux i386 OS arch: 32 bits works: YES

CPU: amd CPU arch: x86_64 OS: Debian GNU/Linux amd64 OS arch: 64 bits works: NO

In short it doesn't work on a 64 bit OS.

I tried to see the source code for the squeak vm because it is the primitives that are failing but I got confused and gave up.

The interesting part that I found was this:

static char   localHostName[MAXHOSTNAMELEN]; static u_long localHostAddress; /* GROSS IPv4 ASSUMPTION! */

assigned in:

/* start a new network session */

sqInt sqNetworkInit(sqInt resolverSemaIndex) {  if (0 != thisNetSession)    return 0;  /* already initialised */  gethostname(localHostName, MAXHOSTNAMELEN);  localHostAddress= nameToAddr(localHostName);  thisNetSession= clock() + time(0);  if (0 == thisNetSession)    thisNetSession= 1;  /* 0 => uninitialised */  resolverSema= resolverSemaIndex;  return 0; }

by means of:

static int nameToAddr(char *hostName) {  struct hostent *he;

lastError= 0;                 /* ditto */  if ((he= gethostbyname(hostName)))    return ntohl(*(long *)(he->h_addr_list[0]));  lastError= h_errno;           /* and one more ditto */  return 0; }

there it appears to call a system function (gethostbyname) and to convert the result struct first entry on array h_addr_list.

Well the point is, this is for someone with more experience with the socket plugin in squeak.

So, it is someone trying to fix this? Are there any news here? It is a structural problem, because before this I could connect to the network in my 64 bit OS on my x86_64 architecture without the ia32libs on debian. For these test I installed the ia32libs package of debian in order load and start the closure vm.

Maybe Jose Luis Redrejo has a hint about how to build the vm in order to having a full networking vm/image.

Or someone more involved with the internals of the vm.

-- Miguel Cobá http://miguel.leugim.com.mx

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