[Haskell-cafe] Sockets get bound to wrong port on Windows

[Ivan Miljenovic]

Sorry for the double-reply Matthias, but I forgot to CC -cafe (GMail
labs isn't working, so reply-to-all is no longer the default for me :(
).

On 3 June 2010 13:10, Matthias Reisner <matthias.reisner at googlemail.com> wrote:
> there's something wrong with port numbers in the Network.Socket module of
> package network. Printing values gives:
>
>   *Main> PortNum 8888
>   47138
>   *Main> PortNum 47138
>   8888

This happens to me as well (self-built GHC 6.12.2 with network 2.2.1.7
on some random Ubuntu version I use at uni).

> So I thought it's just an error in the show instance of PortNumber, which
> shows the bytes flipped. But if I use the following code snippet
>
>   sock <- socket AF_INET Datagram 0
>   bindSocket sock $ SockAddrInet (PortNum 8888) iNADDR_ANY
>
> to bind a socket to port 8888, netstat and TCPView reveal that the socket is
> actually bound to the wrong port 47138. I'm using network-2.2.1.7 on Windows
> XP. Is that a bug or am I doing something wrong here?

Tried testing this as well; not sure how to test if the binding worked
but "netstat --numeric-ports" didn't contain 8888 or 47138.

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