Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 12:12:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Greg Campbell <greg.campbell@matrikon.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: socket communication Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904301210310.16807-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <000f01be9323$ce6e5bf0$9308a8c0@matrikon.com>
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On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Greg Campbell wrote:
> I would appreciate some words of wisdom from anyone
> who has done some socket programming on FreeBSD.
>
> The question is this:
> Is there anything special about connecting to a
> socket from FreeBSD? I am getting an error from
> the "connect" function call (nothing more than
> -1 is returned which doesn't seem to map to any
> error messages codes.
>
Read your man pages; the error is returned in the global variable errno.
Use
perror("connect");
to have the system error printed automatically instead of your custom
oops() function.
Doug White
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