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

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

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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