Failed non-blocking connect returns incorrect errno on AF_UNIX protocol

Steven O'Brien steven.obrien2@ntlworld.com
Wed Mar 26 15:07:00 GMT 2003


On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 08:48:33AM +0800, David Huang wrote:
> Failed non-blocking connect returns incorrect errno on AF_UNIX
> protocol.

I think it is unlikely that the app really needs the connect() call to
be non-blocking (otherwise it would have to handle the in-progress
case). So a simple solution in most cases is to do the connect() first,
then the fcntl(fd, F_SETFL, O_NONBLOCK) so that data transfer is
non-blocking.

Regards,
Steven

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