RTEMS Network Software Support

[Smith, Gene]

If you try to access a socket number (file descriptor) that you have already
closed or never opened you will get a crash/panic.  This bug has been
reported and fixed in cvs per Joel.  Otherwise, the stack seems solid to me.
(But not using MIPS.) 
-gene

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alex Holeczy [mailto:alex at wmi.com]
>Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 9:15 AM
>To: rtems-users at oarcorp.com
>Subject: RTEMS Network Software Support
>
>
>
>I am working on developing an RTEMS application running on an 
>IDT RC32364
>MIPS processor on a hardware platform developed by the company 
>I work for.
>I am using RTEMS 4.5.0 and building with a cross compiler based on gcc
>2.8.1.  The application has both Ada and c functions.
>
>The application fails in a number of ways including recv() returning a
>"Bad file number" error.  The application also fails with TLB Address
>exception error trying to access an invalid memory region at address
>0x00000000.
>
>I am investigating the following areas in the application but have not
>found the reason for the failure:
>
>  1) the network board support packet we developed,
>
>  2) the MIPS interrupt enable/disable functions in cpu_asm.S,
>
>  3) the MIPS caching functions,
>
>  4) the hardware design for a possible bug,
>
>  4) and the user application.
>
>I would like to know if there are any known issues in RTEMS 4.5.0 in
>either the networking support software or the MIPS processor software.
>
>Other application that do not use the networking support seem 
>to run fine.
>
>TIA,
>Alex
>
>
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