From: mansur AT pc DOT jaring DOT my (Mansuriatus Shahrir Amir) Subject: Socket connect error ... with Msg " Not Owner" 5 Nov 1996 20:46:55 -0800 Sender: daemon AT cygnus DOT com Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01BBCBDC.7A0AEA80.cygnus.gnu-win32@j5.brf22.jaring.my> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: "'GNU-Win32 Mailing List'" Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com I have this small program to get email from my pop server. The program works in Linux but not on my office Win95 machine. I have written a test program and managed to narrow down its error. Here it is **************************** Excerpt from program ***************************** #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include "config.h" struct in_addr saddr; struct hostent *get_hostent(const char *host) { int c; struct hostent *hostinfo; c = *host; if (isdigit(c)) { saddr.s_addr = inet_addr(host); hostinfo = gethostbyaddr((char *)&saddr, sizeof(struct in_addr), AF_INET); if (hostinfo == NULL) { printf("Network is unreachable\n"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } } else { hostinfo = gethostbyname(host); if (hostinfo == NULL) { printf("gethostbyname Error\n"); fprintf(stderr, "%s: Unknown host\n", host); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } } return hostinfo; } int start_connection(const char *host, unsigned short int port) { struct hostent *hostinfo; struct sockaddr_in addr; int sfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0); if (sfd == -1) { perror("socket: creating socket"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } printf("Socket created\n"); hostinfo = get_hostent(host); printf("After get_hostent\n"); addr.sin_family = AF_INET; addr.sin_port = htons(port); addr.sin_addr = saddr; //Offending line **************************************************************** if (connect(sfd, (struct sockaddr *)&addr, sizeof addr) == -1) //<----- Here's { //where it fails perror(NULL); // with the mesg "Not owner" exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } printf("Connected to %s.\n", hostinfo->h_name); return sfd; } int main(void) { start_connection("mypop.mydomain.mycountry", 110); return 0; } ************************************** End program ************************************ The offending line is marked above. The error message is "Not owner" Any idea why this is so. I am running this in bash under win95 on Novell 4.1 compiled with Beta 17 The test program compiled fine using gcc -o test.exe test.c - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".