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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: James Bailie <jazzturk@home.com>
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Subject: Re: Perl socketpair() failing 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 18 Nov 1999 06:50:47 EST."
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On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 06:50:47 EST, James Bailie wrote:

> use Socket;
> 
> unless( socketpair ONE, TWO, AF_LOCAL, SOCK_STREAM, 0 )
> {
> 	die "socketpair: $!\n";
> }

I get this with perl -w:

Argument "AF_LOCAL" isn't numeric in sockpair at foo.pl line 5.
socketpair: Protocol not supported

Always use -w when you're having problems. :-)

Now take a look at the perlipc manpage and you'll see that it suggests
the use of AF_UNIX instead of AF_LOCAL.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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