Tor Arntsen's patch for working around a notorious bug in the AIX5

getaddrinfo() implementation.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/ftp.c b/lib/ftp.c
index 49a46fe99..5450c8543 100644
--- a/lib/ftp.c
+++ b/lib/ftp.c
@@ -1167,6 +1167,12 @@ CURLcode ftp_use_port(struct connectdata *conn)
   
   portsock = -1;
   for (ai = res; ai; ai = ai->ai_next) {
+    /*
+     * Workaround for AIX5 getaddrinfo() problem (it doesn't set ai_socktype):
+     */
+    if (ai->ai_socktype == 0)
+      ai->ai_socktype = hints.ai_socktype;
+
     portsock = socket(ai->ai_family, ai->ai_socktype, ai->ai_protocol);
     if (portsock < 0)
       continue;