Re: Invalid argument error when using recvfrom

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Oct 26 13:57, Fernando Barsoba wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Using raw sockets with cygwin is being really painful... After being 
> able to create an IP datagram using the latest snapshot now I'm getting 
> the error "Invalid argument" when calling recvfrom() without doing BIND 
> first.
> 
> There is no need to call bind() before recvfrom when using raw sockets. 
> Why am i getting this error now? Some restriction with winsock?

Probably.  When using raw sockets with Cygwin, you're really in the
hands of Winsock, which has a couple of restrictions in that matter.
I'd suggest to have a look into MSDN which elaborates a bit on the usage
of raw sockets.


Corinna

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