[ale] RE: listen()

[cfowler]

Good one.


On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 10:09, Joe Steele wrote:
> As I recall, you wanted to process only one 
> connection at a time, rejecting additional connection 
> requests until the current connection was closed.
> 
> You probably need to do something like this:
> 
> do
> {
> 	sock1 = socket (...);
> 	bind (sock1,...);
> 	listen (sock1, 1);
> 	sock2 = accept (sock1,...);
> 
> 	/* stop listening for other connection attempts */
> 	close (sock1); 
> 	
> 	/* Service the connection on sock2 */
> 	.
> 	.
> 	.
> 	/* terminate the connection */
> 	close (sock2);
> 
> 	/* loop back and listen for another connection */
> } while (continue_listening); 
> 
> 
> --Joe
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	cfowler [SMTP:cfowler at outpostsentinel.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, February 19, 2003 1:27 PM
> To:	ale at ale.org
> Subject:	[ale] RE: listen()
> 
> I have deleted my emails but a few weeks ago someone mentioned that I
> should do an accept() instead of listen() -> accept() to get only one
> connection. I tried that.
> 
> >From accept(2);
> 
> The argument s is a socket that has been created with socket(2), bound
> to a local address  with  bind(2), and is listening for connections
> after a listen(2).
> 
> Maybe this trick works in BSD but not in Linux.  accept() gave me an
> immediate error.
> 
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