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[kuznet en ms2.inr.ac.ru]

Hello!

> recvfrom(5, "\323x\1\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\3ola\4"..., 512, 0, {sa_family=0, sa_data="\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"}, [16]) = 29
>  | 00000  d3 78 01 00 00 01 00 00  00 00 00 00 03 6f 6c 61  .x...... .....ola |
>  | 00010  04 68 6f 6d 65 02 62 72  00 00 01 00 01           .home.br .....    |
> 
> 
> # Oh, why do I have the packet, the lenght is right (errno is not set)
> and the sockaddr is completely wrong ?

Because you did pretty common mistake, namely, forgot to initialize
address buffer length. And it was initialized by the first recvfrom.

Alexey Kuznetsov

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