Re: Can you select() socketpair()-generated descriptors?

From: Andrew Taylor (ataylor_at_its.to)
Date: 09/29/04

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    Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 20:11:32 GMT

    Jo wrote:

    > I'm pulling my hair out over trying to get a socket passed from one
    > process to another. My latest problem is in getting the receiving
    > process to detect the incoming socket. I'm using select() as I do with
    > all the socket descriptors and pipe descriptors, but it just times
    > out, as though the socket was never sent. If I create a set of
    > descriptors using socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOL_SOCKET, 0, desAncils), does
    > select() treat those descriptors the same as those created with
    > pipe(), accept() or connect()?

    The second parameter to socketpair is wrong. You should be passing a
    socket type (e.g. SOCK_STREAM, SOCK_DGRAM, etc.). 

    -- 
Andrew
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