[erlang-questions] Erlang 19.3 crashes when getting sockname of stdin

[Attila Rajmund Nohl]

Hello!

I have a oneliner that prints out which erlang process is listening on
a given TCP port. Recently I upgraded from Debian 8.9 to Debian 9.2
and on Erlang/OTP 19.3.1 this oneliner no longer works. The minimal
example to reproduce:

Erlang/OTP 19 [erts-8.3.1] [source] [64-bit] [smp:2:2]
[async-threads:10] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false]

Eshell V8.3.1  (abort with ^G)
1> inet:sockname(self()).
** exception error: no function clause matching prim_inet:sockname(<0.58.0>)
2> inet:sockname(hd(erlang:ports())).
Failed to write to erl_child_setup: 9

Crash dump is being written to: erl_crash.dump...done

The (relevant?) part of the crash dump:

Current Process: <0.60.0>
Current Process State: Running
Current Process Internal State: ACT_PRIO_NORMAL | USR_PRIO_NORMAL |
PRQ_PRIO_NORMAL | ACTIVE | RUNNING | ON_HEAP_MSGQ
Current Process Program counter: 0x00007f695af4b1d0 (unknown function)
Current Process CP: 0x0000000000000000 (invalid)
Current Process Limited Stack Trace:
0x00007f6958e16048:SReturn addr 0x5C473830 (prim_inet:ctl_cmd/3 + 64)
0x00007f6958e16070:SReturn addr 0x5C45F3F8 (prim_inet:sockname/1 + 96)
0x00007f6958e16080:SReturn addr 0x5C291510 (erl_eval:do_apply/6 + 408)
0x00007f6958e16088:SReturn addr 0x580DF1B0 (shell:exprs/7 + 632)
0x00007f6958e160a0:SReturn addr 0x580DE8D0 (shell:eval_exprs/7 + 128)
0x00007f6958e160f8:SReturn addr 0x580DE4C8 (shell:eval_loop/3 + 576)
0x00007f6958e16130:SReturn addr 0x943E78 (<terminate process normally>)

Erlang is built from source using kerl. This used to work on Debian
8.9 (as far as I remember, but I may be wrong here) and this also
works (at least doesn't crash the VM) on Erlang 18.3:

3> inet:sockname(hd(erlang:ports())).
** exception error: no try clause matching []
     in function  prim_inet:ctl_cmd/3
     in call from prim_inet:sockname/1

Sometimes my terminal hangs when I reproduce this bug. I just checked
and I got similar crash on OS X too with Erlang/OTP 19.3.