socketpair(2) strange behavior

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Sun Jun 18 00:48:15 UTC 2006


In the last episode (Jun 16), Tofik Suleymanov said:
> when using socketpair(2)  on my FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p1 box i get this
> error: "socketpair: Operation not supported"
> 
> And here is the source of my pretty simple socketpair(2) program:
> ---- START ----
> #include <sys/types.h>
> #include <sys/socket.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <errno.h>
> 
> int main(void) {
> int sv[2], err;
> err = socketpair(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0, (int*)&sv);
> if(err == -1) {
>        perror("socketpair");
>        return -1;
> }
> 

>From the manpage:

  BUGS
    This call is currently implemented only for the UNIX domain.


-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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