sendto() giving EPERM outside a jail

[Daniel O'Connor]

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.

> >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.

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