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Jul 15, 2012, 5:29 AM
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On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 4:04 AM, Christophe JAILLET
<christophe.jaillet [at] wanadoo> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> looking around for static analysis tools, I arrived on a commercial software
> that states that is has already found some mistakes in httpd.
>
> Reading it, I noticed one of their example found in libhttpd. This example
> was against return value from 'accept'.
>
> I looked in httpd for similar construction, and found one in
> modules\generators\mod_cgid.c:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> sd2 = accept(sd, (struct sockaddr *)&unix_addr, &len);
> if (sd2 < 0) {
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
mod_cgid isn't written for Windows. There are plenty of other
Unix-isms as well.
>
>
> According to http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0105/ (search in the page for
> libhttpd to see their explanation), return value of 'accept' should not be
> tested for negative values, at least on windows.
>
>
> I don't know if it is really an issue or not, I just wanted to point it out
> in case of interest for a httpd/socket/windows guru.
>
>
> Is there any chance for
> (https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52476) to be related to
> it ?
>
>
> Best regards,
> Christophe Jaillet
>
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