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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2005-08-26 08:34:00 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2005-08-26 08:34:00 (GMT)
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patch [ 756021 ] Allow socket.inet_aton("255.255.255.255") on Windows
Diffstat (limited to 'Modules/socketmodule.c')
-rw-r--r--Modules/socketmodule.c19
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Modules/socketmodule.c b/Modules/socketmodule.c
index 3c17e9c..059153d 100644
--- a/Modules/socketmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/socketmodule.c
@@ -3238,14 +3238,19 @@ socket_inet_aton(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
return NULL;
#else /* ! HAVE_INET_ATON */
- /* XXX Problem here: inet_aton('255.255.255.255') raises
- an exception while it should be a valid address. */
- packed_addr = inet_addr(ip_addr);
+ /* special-case this address as inet_addr might return INADDR_NONE
+ * for this */
+ if (strcmp(ip_addr, "255.255.255.255") == 0) {
+ packed_addr = 0xFFFFFFFF;
+ } else {
+
+ packed_addr = inet_addr(ip_addr);
- if (packed_addr == INADDR_NONE) { /* invalid address */
- PyErr_SetString(socket_error,
- "illegal IP address string passed to inet_aton");
- return NULL;
+ if (packed_addr == INADDR_NONE) { /* invalid address */
+ PyErr_SetString(socket_error,
+ "illegal IP address string passed to inet_aton");
+ return NULL;
+ }
}
return PyString_FromStringAndSize((char *) &packed_addr,
sizeof(packed_addr));