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Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 13:01:40 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: socket troubles
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On Sep 16 21:56, znort wrote:
>   while(1)
>   {
>     errno=0;
> 
>     sock = accept(sd, NULL,NULL);
>     
>     if (errno==0)
>     {
>       rf = fork();
> 
>       /* father will still listener forever */
>       if (!rf)
>       {
>           fcntl(sock, F_SETFL, f & (~O_NONBLOCK) );
>   
>           shutdown(sd, SHUT_RDWR);
>           recv(sock, ok, 2048, 0);
>           
>           sprintf(ok, "01101996 123 444");
>           send(sock, ok, strlen(ok)+1, 0);
>           
>           /* no return from client just to "block" the child */
>           recv(sock, ok, 2048, 0);
>           
>           shutdown(sock, SHUT_RDWR);
> 
>           break;
>       }
>     }
>     else
>     {
>       printf("errno = %d", errno);
>     }
>   }

You're waisting resources, that's the problem.  Observe the handle
usage of your server process while running the client, and you'll
be surprised.

shutdown doesn't close the socket and consequentially doesn't remove
the socket from the system tables.  Use close instead of shutdown.
Also, if you never call wait or waitpid to reap child processes, you
end up with lots of zombie processes (the child processes you don't
see in task manager).

Next time, please convert your test application to compile under gcc,
not VC++.


Corinna

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