Michael Still was once rumoured to have said:
>
> Hey all.
>
> I have some socket code, which binds to a port and then accepts
> connections. Every time I try to read() from the socket, I get a EINVAL. I
> am sure that I am doing something grossly stupid, and was wondering if
> anyone could tell me what I had missed.
>
> Sorry about the big code dump, I have tried to trim it down a bit.
[Snip]
>
> while(1){
> if(accept(socketfd, (struct sockaddr *) &connaddr, &connaddrlen) ==
> -1)
This is where your error lies.
this should read:
while(1) {
int newfd = 0;
if ((newfd = accept(socketfd, (struct sockaddr*) &connaddr,
&connaddrlen) == -1) {
// error handling here...
...
}
And use newfd as the socket to read from/write to.
C.
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