accept: Invalid argument

victor cruceru victor.cruceru at gmail.com
Tue Sep 6 09:01:04 PDT 2005


Also the 3rd argument for accept  must be positive.
See man accept.
victor cruceru.

On 9/6/05, victor cruceru <victor.cruceru at gmail.com> wrote:
> Did you call bind() and especially listen() before accept()?
> victor cruceru
> 
> 
> On 9/6/05, erkan kolemen <erkankolemen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 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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