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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!chi-news.cic.net!usc!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!bluestem.prairienet.org!mheins From: mheins@bluestem.prairienet.org (Mike Heins) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.lang.perl.misc Subject: Re: i386 arch - getpeername func? Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.lang.perl.misc Date: 7 Nov 1995 06:17:10 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 48 Message-ID: <47mtl6$oa2@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <DHn9sy.Kow@nntpa.cb.att.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bluestem.prairienet.org Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:232 comp.lang.perl.misc:6619 -S.HORVATH (sjh@strat.ho.att.com) wrote: : This is probably more a software eng' question rather than a perl or : 386 question, but here goes: I want to run dump over a tcp socket, : doing it via a perl script provided by the vendor of a backup product. : It gags on the getpeername function, from what little I know of perl, it's : I think it's really looking for a lower level system call. Is there any way : to get my machine to recognize this function? Code snippet up to the line : it bombs provided. The users are locked in to this OS, so I can't upgrade : it (before you offer the latest and greatest...) : Thanks in advance, : Steve : ***** : system1> perl -v : : This is perl, version 5.000 : : system1> uname -a : system1 system1 3.2 2.3 i386 What the heck is that? i386 what? Is it Interactive UNIX? Or BSDI? : system1> perl /usr/etc/btclientd : Unsupported socket function "getpeername" called at /usr/etc/btclientd line 20. Have you tried doing a 'man getpeername'? Does the call exist on i386, as it does on most systems? Most (well, all) perl socket calls merely submit the proper variables to the corresponding system call, and hook up the proper file descriptors. Have you run h2ph? That will create the needed header files for the common socket calls. Having said all that, I see that since standard input is from the terminal, and not necessarily from a valid TCP socket, the getpeername call cannot be expected to work. What is supposed to be the caller of this perl script? Where are you running it from? I suspect that it is intended to be run with a command line like 'perl htclientd < something', or called from another script which already has the standard input coming from a socket. Regards, Mike Heins