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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE does not start on FreeBSD
From:       Bradley T Hughes <bhughes () trolltech ! com>
Date:       2002-01-10 7:43:57
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On Thursday 10 January 2002 01:21, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 January 2002 03:08 am, Bradley T Hughes wrote:
> > On Wednesday 09 January 2002 09:05, Lauri Watts wrote:
> >
> > After much trial and many unanswered questions, I have a patch to make
> > KDE3 work on FreeBSD:
> >
> > The reason things quit working is because nothing could communicate to
> > the dcop server correctly.  When ICE bound the listening socket in
> > /tmp/.ICE-unix, the last char of the filename got chopped off (because
> > the len parameters in the sockaddr and sockaddr_un's were all wrong). 
> > Now, the thing *I* would like to know is this: why the hell did this
> > work on other systems?
>
> Other systems don't have "sun_len" :-) CVS version should work on
> FreeBSD now too.

Indeed it does, I wonder why this bug only showed its face now, instead of 
in 2.x...

> I noticed that BSD doesn't use SO_PEERCRED, doesn't it
> have that or do I need to include some other header for that? Listed on
> Linux under "man 7 socket"

There doesn't seem to be any support in FreeBSD atleast for SO_PEERCRED.  
Nothing in the headers or manpages.

> Cheers,
> Waldo

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