problem getting gawk inet working with udp, tcp okay - solved: 3.1.6 okay

Hi there,

I'm trying to use the gawk 3.1.5 socket communications, tcp protocol
works as expected, but udp crashes at the server side. Using Linux.

#!/usr/bin/gawk -f
# server
BEGIN {
service = "/inet/tcp/8888/0/0"

for (; {
printf "%s", strftime("%F.%T")
service |& getline
close(service, "from")
printf " %-15s ", $0
if ($1 == "shutdown") {
print "shutdown" |& service
print ""; exit
}
n = split($0, a, "")
reply = ""
for (i = n; i > 0; i--)
reply = reply a[i]
print reply |& service
close(service, "to")
print reply
}
}

#!/usr/bin/gawk -f
# client
BEGIN {
service = "/inet/tcp/0/localhost/8888"
}
{
print $0 |& service
close(service, "to")
printf "wait for reply: "

service |& getline reply
close(service, "from")
print reply
}

Successful run with tcp client-server opertion:
Server-side:
$ ./server
2008-07-27.10:46:32 this is a test tset a si siht
2008-07-27.10:46:35 shutdown

Client side:
$ echo "this is a test" | client
wait for reply: tset a si siht
$ echo shutdown | client
wait for reply: shutdown

Now, if I change the "/inet/tcp..." to "/inet/udp..." in the 'service'
var on both client and server, I get:

Server-side:
$ ./server
2008-07-27.10:47:08gawk: ./server:8: fatal: can't open two way socket
`/inet/udp/8888/0/0' for input/output (No such file or directory)

Client side:
$ echo "this is a test" | client
wait for reply: ^C
$

Client required Ctrl-C to exit. The server crashed when I hit Enter at
the client screen, so it seemed to be properly blocking on read from the
port. Server line 8 is 'service |& getline'.

Just before sending this post I installed gawk-3.1.6, udp works!

Me happy, I send this anyway to get the problem plus fix into google.

Grant.
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