accept: Invalid argument

[Sergey Uvarov]

Did you issue listen(2) call before accepting connections?

Sergey.

erkan kolemen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In a daemon loop, i am using accept() to accept
> incoming connections.
> 
> while(1) {
> if((fd = accept(socketd, (struct sockaddr *) &addr,
> &addrlen)) == -1) {
>   syslog(LOG_ERR, "accept: %s", strerror(errno));
>   continue;
> }
> else {
>  ...
> }
> 
> accept always fails. What is wrong? i could create
> socket and i got a positive integer value as socket
> descriptor. following is from syslog:
> 
> Sep  6 17:20:50 devel pro[99227]: accept: Invalid
> argument
> Sep  6 17:21:20 devel last message repeated 204686
> times
> 
> What is wrong? i am calling accept before fork().. So
> i don't think child process affecting parent process.
> 
> thanks and regards...
> 
> - erkan
> 
> 
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