accept: Invalid argument

Sergey S. Ropchan fenix at ramb.com.ua
Wed Sep 7 04:29:15 PDT 2005


It seems, one from accept() arguments not correctly defined, could you 
please show definitions of: socketd, addr and addrlen !? Or full source !?


>Hi,
>
>In a daemon loop, i am using accept() to accept
>incoming connections.
>
>while(1) {
>if((fd = accept(socketd, (struct sockaddr *) &addr,
>&addrlen)) == -1) {
>  syslog(LOG_ERR, "accept: %s", strerror(errno));
>  continue;
>}
>else {
> ...
>}
>
>accept always fails. What is wrong? i could create
>socket and i got a positive integer value as socket
>descriptor. following is from syslog:
>
>Sep  6 17:20:50 devel pro[99227]: accept: Invalid
>argument
>Sep  6 17:21:20 devel last message repeated 204686
>times
>
>What is wrong? i am calling accept before fork().. So
>i don't think child process affecting parent process.
>
>thanks and regards...
>
>- erkan
>
>
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Best regards
Sergey S. Ropchan



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