RE: accept

Richard B. Johnson
2001-02-05T13:00:30Z

On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Mathieu Dube wrote:

> Ok, but fd 0 cant be a valid socket since its the stdin
>
Sure it can:

close(0);
close(1);
close(2);
fd = socket(....);
dup....etc, for stdout and stderr.

That said, never, never, ever, check the value of the errno global
unless a function call returned an error. Many/most/all C runtime
procedures don't touch that variable unless an error occurred.
So, reading its value will show the results of something that
happened hours ago (line an interrupted system call).

> I posted that on this mailing list coz I thought that this might be a scaling
> problem since it happens when theres already several clients connected to the
> server

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

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