> Volker Stolz wrote:
> >
> > While thumbing through W.R.Stevens� "Unix Network
> Programming" I found
> > the following which should explain everything (except the
> > platform-differences):
> > "What happens is the �read� returns zero (end of file) to the daemon
> > every time a client porcess terminates, if no other clients have the
> > FIFO open for writing. [..] To avoid this, a useful
> technique is for the
> > daemon to open the FIFO two times -- once for reading and once for
> > writing. [..] By having the FIFO always open for writing
> [..] the reads
> > to not return an EOF, but wait for the next client request."
> >
> > This solved the problem.
> But how am I supposed to get this to work for sockets? If I try to
> turn a socket into a handle twice I get a bind error.
Whoa, this problem is specific to FIFOs. It has nothing to do with sockets,
I thought we'd cleared this up?
Cheers,
Simon
