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  r69519 | gregory.p.smith | 2009-02-11 15:45:25 -0800 (Wed, 11 Feb 2009) | 3 lines

  Issue #1008086: Fixes socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even
  on LP64 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
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Lib/test/test_socket.py

@@ -385,6 +385,14 @@ class GeneralModuleTests(unittest.TestCase):
         # Check that setting it to an invalid type raises TypeError
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, socket.setdefaulttimeout, "spam")
 
+    def testIPv4_inet_aton_fourbytes(self):
+        if not hasattr(socket, 'inet_aton'):
+            return  # No inet_aton, nothing to check
+        # Test that issue1008086 and issue767150 are fixed.
+        # It must return 4 bytes.
+        self.assertEquals('\x00'*4, socket.inet_aton('0.0.0.0'))
+        self.assertEquals('\xff'*4, socket.inet_aton('255.255.255.255'))
+
     def testIPv4toString(self):
         if not hasattr(socket, 'inet_pton'):
             return # No inet_pton() on this platform

Misc/NEWS

@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on
+  LP64 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
+
 - Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before
   reading from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and
   lead to incorrect entry or an IOError.  It also properly flushes it

Modules/socketmodule.c

@@ -3745,8 +3745,11 @@ socket_inet_aton(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
 #endif
 
 #if !defined(HAVE_INET_ATON) || defined(USE_INET_ATON_WEAKLINK)
+#if (SIZEOF_INT != 4)
+#error "Not sure if in_addr_t exists and int is not 32-bits."
+#endif
 	/* Have to use inet_addr() instead */
-	unsigned long packed_addr;
+	unsigned int packed_addr;
 #endif
 	char *ip_addr;
 
@@ -5284,7 +5287,10 @@ int
 inet_pton(int af, const char *src, void *dst)
 {
 	if (af == AF_INET) {
-		long packed_addr;
+#if (SIZEOF_INT != 4)
+#error "Not sure if in_addr_t exists and int is not 32-bits."
+#endif
+		unsigned int packed_addr;
 		packed_addr = inet_addr(src);
 		if (packed_addr == INADDR_NONE)
 			return 0;