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Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 18:12:01 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: DEVRIENDT ERIK <Erik DOT Devriendt AT siemens DOT be>
Cc: cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: connect() does not work with UNIX domain datagram sockets
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On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 05:50:21PM +0200, DEVRIENDT ERIK wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am porting a client-server set of programs that run
> fine under linux.
> The programs communicate using UNIX domain datagram sockets.
> the server does the classic socket(), unlink(), bind() and then a loop
> with read(). There is no accept() because we use datagram
> sockets.
> 
> The problem is in the client, which does socket(), connect()
> and then a loop with write() calls.
> The connect() hangs for 10 seconds and then fails with errno=111
> (Connection refused).
> When using sendto() I manage to send data, but that doesn't fit well
> in the current implementation of the client (we use the same
> codebase for several platforms). 
> According to the man pages of select() on linux and HP-UX it is allowed
> to use connect() with datagram sockets; it sets the default destination
> address for the communication over that socket.
> 
> Is this a cygwin bug, or am I doing something wrong ?

Could you please test if it works when omitting the unlink()
on the server side?

Corinna

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