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From: "Kay M" <passhark AT hotmail DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re Re: Re: UNIX Sockets - Broadcast address
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 03:37:13 +0000
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So what the bottom line, no broadcasting ?.

Question: Has any one ever written a program on cygwin that uses A broadcast 
address ?. A client program to be more specific.



On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 08:08:15AM +0000, Kay M wrote:
>Yup, Like I said Ok with LINUX, so ?
>
>What could be wrong ?. REMEMBER its the bind()ing function that gives an 
>error!. Even with no server just client, bind()ing gives error.

Dunno.  The error code is returned by a WinSock function.  It's
not explicitely set by Cygwin so I assume you're hitting a restriction
of WinSock.  Did you try asking on a microsoft news group?

Corinna



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