Use the XPG 4.2 versions of the networking APIs in Solaris.

Those, unlike the default versions, comply with the Single UNIX
Specification, meaning they are able to detect truncation of datagrams
when received with recvmsg().

diff --git a/aclocal.m4 b/aclocal.m4
index 4362d4ff8e3f061accea5b1a54bbb9dd931d3229..650604b500aa037682af5c7897efc41de4fba4c2 100644 (file)
--- a/aclocal.m4
+++ b/aclocal.m4
@@ -1055,9 +1055,13 @@ dnl
 AC_DEFUN(AC_LBL_LIBRARY_NET, [
     # Most operating systems have gethostbyname() in the default searched
     # libraries (i.e. libc):
-    # Some OSes (eg. Solaris) place it in libnsl
+    # Some OSes (eg. Solaris) place it in libnsl, but in at least some
+    # versions of Solaris, there are alternate versions of these APIs
+    # in libxnet, and those versions conform to the Single UNIX
+    # Specification, meaning you can actually check for truncation
+    # of incoming datagrams in recvmsg(), so we prefer that.
     # Some strange OSes (SINIX) have it in libsocket:
-    AC_SEARCH_LIBS(gethostbyname, nsl socket resolv)
+    AC_SEARCH_LIBS(gethostbyname, xnet nsl socket resolv)
     # Unfortunately libsocket sometimes depends on libnsl and
     # AC_SEARCH_LIBS isn't up to the task of handling dependencies like this.
     if test "$ac_cv_search_gethostbyname" = "no"

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 8b9a8ea6a664deb3e9545f037595619ef6d880e1..5f9445fc9e8e2a112aa1ce3d6e0b24f170e9c505 100755 (executable)
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -4789,7 +4789,11 @@ fi
 
     # Most operating systems have gethostbyname() in the default searched
     # libraries (i.e. libc):
-    # Some OSes (eg. Solaris) place it in libnsl
+    # Some OSes (eg. Solaris) place it in libnsl, but in at least some
+    # versions of Solaris, there are alternate versions of these APIs
+    # in libxnet, and those versions conform to the Single UNIX
+    # Specification, meaning you can actually check for truncation
+    # of incoming datagrams in recvmsg(), so we prefer that.
     # Some strange OSes (SINIX) have it in libsocket:
     { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for library containing gethostbyname" >&5
 $as_echo_n "checking for library containing gethostbyname... " >&6; }
@@ -4815,7 +4819,7 @@ return gethostbyname ();
   return 0;
 }
 _ACEOF
-for ac_lib in '' nsl socket resolv; do
+for ac_lib in '' xnet nsl socket resolv; do
   if test -z "$ac_lib"; then
     ac_res="none required"
   else
@@ -7235,6 +7239,7 @@ else
   cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
 /* end confdefs.h.  */
 
+#      include "ftmacros.h"
 #      include <sys/socket.h>
 int
 main ()
@@ -7267,6 +7272,7 @@ else
   cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
 /* end confdefs.h.  */
 
+#      include "ftmacros.h"
 #      include <sys/socket.h>
 int
 main ()

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 7f16399cf86c49c1f47c6330ca0925fa7b3e4da4..65daad890a4baae8d428cb0b7ded3622eee93bae 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1303,6 +1303,7 @@ yes)      AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
        AC_MSG_CHECKING(if struct msghdr has a msg_control member)
        AC_CACHE_VAL(ac_cv_lbl_struct_msghdr_has_msg_control,
            AC_TRY_COMPILE([
+#      include "ftmacros.h"
 #      include <sys/socket.h>],
                [u_int i = sizeof(((struct msghdr *)0)->msg_control)],
                ac_cv_lbl_struct_msghdr_has_msg_control=yes,
@@ -1314,6 +1315,7 @@ yes)      AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
        AC_MSG_CHECKING(if struct msghdr has a msg_flags member)
        AC_CACHE_VAL(ac_cv_lbl_struct_msghdr_has_msg_flags,
            AC_TRY_COMPILE([
+#      include "ftmacros.h"
 #      include <sys/socket.h>],
                [u_int i = sizeof(((struct msghdr *)0)->msg_flags)],
                ac_cv_lbl_struct_msghdr_has_msg_flags=yes,

diff --git a/ftmacros.h b/ftmacros.h
index 19b9fb43c6eef5b9f496f802fd6473f7b5a49e37..8e3194934d8c2434f2ca5bf6a7ee9bf9d2c07600 100644 (file)
--- a/ftmacros.h
+++ b/ftmacros.h
@@ -49,6 +49,13 @@
  */
 #if defined(sun) || defined(__sun)
   #define __EXTENSIONS__
+
+  /*
+   * We also need to define _XPG4_2 in order to get
+   * the Single UNIX Specification version of
+   * recvmsg().
+   */
+  #define _XPG4_2
 #elif defined(_hpux) || defined(hpux) || defined(__hpux)
   #define _REENTRANT
 #elif defined(__linux__) || defined(linux) || defined(__linux)