ext/sockets/tests/bug63000.phpt fails when multicast disabled

[orlitzky]

Description

This test tries to set a multicast socket option,

$socket = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, SOL_UDP);
socket_bind($socket, '0.0.0.0', 31057);

$so = socket_set_option($socket, IPPROTO_IP, MCAST_JOIN_GROUP, array(
    "group" => '224.0.0.251',
    "interface" => 0,
));
var_dump($so);

but even on Linux, the ability to do so is not guaranteed. For example, if you run the test in its own network namespace,

$ unshare -n sapi/cli/php ./run-tests.php ext/sockets/tests/bug63000.phpt

you'll get an error,

---- EXPECTED OUTPUT
bool(true)
---- ACTUAL OUTPUT
Warning: socket_set_option(): Unable to set socket option [19]: No such device in ...bug63000.php on line 5
bool(false)
---- FAILED

The reason is that multicast first has to be enabled on a "new" network interface. Specifically, both of the following seem necessary,

$ ifconfig lo multicast
$ route add -net 224.0.0.0 netmask 224.0.0.0 lo

before the test will work.

I'm not really sure what the best way around this is. A simpler test for basic multicast support in SKIPIF?

PHP Version

php-8.2.8

Operating System

No response

[nielsdos]

I'm not really sure what the best way around this is. A simpler test for basic multicast support in SKIPIF?

I guess so, although I'm not sure yet how that would look like. Feel free to give it a shot if you want :-)