accept() fails in service, succeeds in standalone app

Matt Minnis mminnis@prefres.com
Mon Aug 7 14:16:00 GMT 2000


Actually, this may still be the same problem.
It may just be the difference in the way 9x and NT handle things.

Thanks,

Matt

At 08:28 PM 8/7/2000 +0000, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
>Hi,
>this sounds like a different problem to me. In my case, accept doesn't
>wait but returns immediately with errno 14. This lets the log file
>grow to 1MB in a matter of seconds if I log every attempted
>connection.
>Markus
>
>Matt Minnis writes:
>  > I ran into this same issue.
>  >
>  > The accept() call waits for input of some sort.
>  >
>  > I have a program that opens a Telnet server session and then gets 
> stuck at
>  > the accept() call.
>  > If I telnet to it, it will then continue.
>  >
>  > Kinda anoying.
>  >
>  > I am on Win2000, running Cygwin 1.13
>  >
>  > Thanks,
>  >
>  > Matt
>  >
>  >
>  > At 07:40 PM 8/7/2000 +0000, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
>  > >Hi all,
>  > >
>  > >I came across this weird problem in my first attempt whatsoever to run
>  > >some homegrown code as a WinNT4 service. The app is a simple server
>  > >that handles client requests with the bind/listen/select/accept
>  > >functions. This runs all fine and handles client requests nicely as
>  > >long as I run this as a standalone application. I can install this
>  > >application as a service using invkr153.zip ( http://www.idetix.com )
>  > >and it starts without problems. But when I try to connect to the server
>  > >(now running as a service), accept fails with errno 14 (bad address).
>  > >
>  > >Has anyone else seen this? Is this a Cygwin issue or a NT issue? Are
>  > >there specific requirements for Cygwin apps to run successfully as a
>  > >service?
>  > >
>  > >I'm running B20.1 on WinNT4 SP 5.
>  > >
>  > >Any help is greatly appreciated.
>  > >
>  > >Markus
>  > >
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