Dryice Liu  wrote:

> On my FreeBSD6.0-amd64 box the test_passfd.py failed. The error
> message looks like:
>
> ,----
> | rfd 3 wfd 4
> | x
> | Traceback (most recent call last):
> |   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/scgi/test_passfd.py", line
46, in ?
> |     fileObj = os.fdopen(fd, 'r')
> | OSError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
> `----
>
> I guess this is related to the differences of sizeof(long) on 32/64
> bits machines but can't prove/fix it. Can somebody shine some light on
> this? Thanks!

Well I think I've found the problem. In struct iovec, iov_base is a
void*, while on i386 box a pointer is 32 bits and on amd64 a pointer
is 64 bits. Looks the following patch could fix it. They works at
least on my FreeBSD 6.0 i386 and amd64.

======================================================================
--- passfd.c.orig       Thu Dec  1 21:14:17 2005
+++ passfd.c    Thu Dec  1 21:14:53 2005
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 #include 


-#define CONTROLLEN sizeof (struct cmsghdr) + sizeof (int)
+#define CONTROLLEN sizeof (struct cmsghdr) + sizeof (void*)

 static int
 recv_fd(int sockfd)
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
        struct cmsghdr *cmptr = (struct cmsghdr *) tmpbuf;
        struct iovec iov[1];
        struct msghdr msg;
-       char buf[1];
+       void* buf[1];

        iov[0].iov_base = buf;
        iov[0].iov_len = sizeof (buf);
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
        struct cmsghdr *cmptr = (struct cmsghdr *) tmpbuf;
         struct iovec iov[1];
         struct msghdr msg;
-        char buf[1];
+        void* buf[1];

         iov[0].iov_base = buf;
         iov[0].iov_len = 1;
======================================================================

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