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From: Brian Buchanan <bwb@holo.org>
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On Thu, 5 May 2005, J.R. Oldroyd wrote:

> Isn't our behaviour wrong...
>
> On 6-current, the program below prints:
> 	connect: Connection refused
>
> Shouldn't it print:
> 	connect: Operation now in progress

No, that's the correct behavior.  The system was able to satisfy your 
request without blocking because you were attempting a connection to the 
loopback, so connect() returned immediately with errno == ECONNREFUSED.

- Brian