Attempting to use the canonname field in an addrinfo structure results in the bytes of the string pointer being interpreted as characters. See http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=25352327 for a test case that illustrates the problem. The attached patch fixes it.
sbcl --version: SBCL 1.1.2-1.fc18
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:LINUX :LITTLE-ENDIAN :MEMORY-BARRIER-VOPS :MULTIPLY-HIGH-VOPS
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Please accept my abject apologies for taking 3 years to report this on launchpad. Sheesh.
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