Networking on images running on 64 bit OSes.

> Is someone working on issues:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=1031
> http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=961
> http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=794
>
> Without them fixed the in-image network doesn't work.
>
> CPU: intel
> CPU arch: x86
> OS: Debian GNU/Linux i386
> OS arch: 32 bits
> works: YES
>
> CPU: intel
> CPU arch: x86_64
> OS: Debian GNU/Linux amd64
> OS arch: 64 bits
> works: NO
>
> CPU: amd
> CPU arch: x86_64
> OS: Debian GNU/Linux i386
> OS arch: 32 bits
> works: YES
>
> CPU: amd
> CPU arch: x86_64
> OS: Debian GNU/Linux amd64
> OS arch: 64 bits
> works: NO
>
> In short it doesn't work on a 64 bit OS.
>
> I tried to see the source code for the squeak vm because it is the
> primitives that are failing but I got confused and gave up.
>
> The interesting part that I found was this:
>
> static char   localHostName[MAXHOSTNAMELEN];
> static u_long localHostAddress; /* GROSS IPv4 ASSUMPTION! */
>
> assigned in:
>
> /* start a new network session */
>
> sqInt sqNetworkInit(sqInt resolverSemaIndex)
> {
>   if (0 != thisNetSession)
>     return 0;  /* already initialised */
>   gethostname(localHostName, MAXHOSTNAMELEN);
>   localHostAddress= nameToAddr(localHostName);
>   thisNetSession= clock() + time(0);
>   if (0 == thisNetSession)
>     thisNetSession= 1;  /* 0 => uninitialised */
>   resolverSema= resolverSemaIndex;
>   return 0;
> }
>
> by means of:
>
> static int nameToAddr(char *hostName)
> {
>   struct hostent *he;
>
>   lastError= 0; /* ditto */
>   if ((he= gethostbyname(hostName)))
>     return ntohl(*(long *)(he->h_addr_list[0]));
>   lastError= h_errno; /* and one more ditto */
>   return 0;
> }
>
> there it appears to call a system function (gethostbyname)
> and to convert the result struct first entry on array h_addr_list.
>
> Well the point is, this is for someone with more experience with the
> socket plugin in squeak.
>
> So, it is someone trying to fix this? Are there any news here?
> It is a structural problem, because before this I could connect to the network in
> my 64 bit OS on my x86_64 architecture without the ia32libs on debian. For these test
> I installed the ia32libs package of debian in order load and start the closure vm.
>
> Maybe Jose Luis Redrejo has a hint about how to build the vm in order to having
> a full networking vm/image.
>
> Or someone more involved with the internals of the vm.
>

> Is someone working on issues:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=1031
> http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=961
> http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=794
>
> Without them fixed the in-image network doesn't work.
>
> CPU: intel
> CPU arch: x86
> OS: Debian GNU/Linux i386
> OS arch: 32 bits
> works: YES
>
> CPU: intel
> CPU arch: x86_64
> OS: Debian GNU/Linux amd64
> OS arch: 64 bits
> works: NO
>
> CPU: amd
> CPU arch: x86_64
> OS: Debian GNU/Linux i386
> OS arch: 32 bits
> works: YES
>
> CPU: amd
> CPU arch: x86_64
> OS: Debian GNU/Linux amd64
> OS arch: 64 bits
> works: NO
>