On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 03:10:13AM +0000, Luke Small wrote:
> Thanks for the help. I'm not trying to kill the process. I stated that the
> process didn't die to show that it didn't reach the "got here2" because it
> was blocking.
>
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 6:40 PM Jeremie Courreges-Anglas <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Luke Small <[email protected]> writes:
> >
> > > It says "got here1", doesn't say "got here2", and the process doesn't
> > die.
> > > Since it isn't reading anything from sockfd which is "listen"ing, I
> > expect
> > > it to fail. Is it too much to ask it to fail?
> >
> > SOCK_NONBLOCK doesn't do what you think it does. The manpage says under
> > which conditions an accept() call doesn't block.
> >
> > --
> > jca | PGP : 0x1524E7EE / 5135 92C1 AD36 5293 2BDF DDCC 0DFA 74AE 1524 E7EE
> >
Read the man page again, the SOCK_NONBLOCK flags does not apply to the
accepting socket, but the new fd that is created on a succceful accept.
-Otto
