This bug was reported automaticaly in connection with IPv6 project. Our aim is to support IPv6 in all Fedora Core packages so FC6 and RHEL5 will be ready for IPv6. This package seems to lack IPv6 support as is illustrated in attached log. Here follows part of scanning log (grep -r F_INET *)/up to 30 lines: /mc-4.6.1a/vfs/samba/lib/netmask.c:73: if ((fd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0)) == -1) { /mc-4.6.1a/vfs/samba/lib/netmask.c:172: if ((fd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0)) == -1) { /mc-4.6.1a/vfs/samba/lib/netmask.c:272: if ((fd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0)) == -1) { /mc-4.6.1a/vfs/samba/lib/util_sock.c:632: out_fd = socket(AF_INET, type, 0); /mc-4.6.1a/vfs/samba/lib/util_sock.c:643: sock_out.sin_family = AF_INET; /mc-4.6.1a/vfs/samba/lib/util_sock.c:739: res = socket(PF_INET, type, 0); /mc-4.6.1a/vfs/samba/lib/util_sock.c:749: sock_out.sin_family = PF_INET; /mc-4.6.1a/vfs/samba/lib/util_sock.c:836: AF_INET)) == 0) { /mc-4.6.1a/vfs/samba/libsmb/nmblib.c:714: sock_out.sin_family = AF_INET; /mc-4.6.1a/vfs/mcfs.c:37:#include <sys/socket.h> /* AF_INET */ /mc-4.6.1a/vfs/mcfs.c:229: server_address.sin_family = AF_INET; /mc-4.6.1a/vfs/mcfs.c:255: if ((my_socket = socket (AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) < 0) { /mc-4.6.1a/vfs/mcserv.c:862: local_address.sin_family = AF_INET; /mc-4.6.1a/vfs/mcserv.c:871: if ((my_socket = socket (AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) < 0) { /mc-4.6.1a/vfs/mcserv.c:1041: if (from.sin_family != AF_INET) /mc-4.6.1a/vfs/mcserv.c:1203: if ((sock = socket (AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) < 0) /mc-4.6.1a/vfs/mcserv.c:1212: server_address.sin_family = AF_INET; /mc-4.6.1a/vfs/ftpfs.c:60:#include <sys/socket.h> /* AF_INET */ /mc-4.6.1a/vfs/ftpfs.c:670: server_address.sin_family = AF_INET; /mc-4.6.1a/vfs/ftpfs.c:691: if ((my_socket = socket (AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) < 0) {
After a little investigation I see that mc uses longs for storing addresses so that significant rewrite of the noticed VFS bits (samba, fish, mcfs, ftp) is needed. Since mc is mostly a filemanager used to manage local files in 95% of the time I think it won't affect FC6/RHEL5 in a significant way if we ship it in the current state.
Created attachment 137087 [details] FTP over IPv6 support This patch is only for ftpfs. Mc has some more vfses that need ipv6 support. But ftp has the highest priority imho, so I'm sending it now. smbfs will be the next :]
Applied after few tune-ups. Thanks.