Re: sendto() giving EPERM outside a jail

On Mar 28, 10:23, "Daniel O'Connor" wrote:
} Subject: Re: sendto() giving EPERM outside a jail
}
} On Saturday 24 March 2007 02:47, Steve Watt wrote:
} > >According to my reading of the man page it is not possible to get this
} > > error unless I'm using jails (which I'm not). The code in question does.
} > That's probably a buglet in the man page.
}
} I guess it would be nice if the man page(s) mentioned that a firewall could
} cause EPERM. I have seen it before with other apps but the sendto() confused
} me.

It's one of those unpleasant interactions between pluggable subsystems,
so it's a bit tough to document -- there are various different firewalls
available, after all.

} > >Can someone shed light on what the problem is? The application appears to
} > > work fine even with this error though.
} >
} > man setsockopt, search for SO_BROADCAST.
}
} It doesn't say anything about EPERM.

If you're sending broadcast broadcast or multicast datagrams, you need
to set the SO_BROADCAST socket option, as well.

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