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Re: Blocking accept() broken?


That's a bug in your code. You're giving an uninitialized pointer and
an uninitialized length to accept.  

Try this:

On Sep 23 15:31, Mailing List wrote:

#include <errno.h>

[...]

#ifdef THAT_WOULD_BE_BETTER
	clilen = sizeof (struct sockaddr_in);
	cliaddr = alloca (clilen);
#endif

> 	/* Infinite loop waiting for connections */
> 	for(;;)
> 	{
> 		connfd = accept(listenfd, (struct sockaddr *) cliaddr, &clilen);

		if (connfd < 0)
		  printf ("Errno: %d <%s>\n", errno, strerror(errno));
> 		
> 			
> 		/* Here would be a pthread_create to handle the incomming connection */
> 
> 	}
> 
> 	return 0;
> }


Corinna

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