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This is about as much as I can cut it down:
/***************************************************************************************/

#include	<sys/types.h>	
#include	<sys/socket.h>
#include	<netinet/in.h>
#include	<arpa/inet.h>
#include	<fcntl.h>
#include	<signal.h>
#include	<stdio.h>
#include	<stdlib.h>


int main()
{
	/* variable declarations */
	int connfd, listenfd, flags;
	socklen_t clilen;
	struct sockaddr *cliaddr;
	struct sockaddr_in mysock;
	    
	/* Create socket file descriptor */
	listenfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);

	/* Set up socket details */
	bzero(&mysock, sizeof(mysock));
	mysock.sin_family = AF_INET;
	mysock.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_ANY);
	mysock.sin_port = htons(12201);
	
	/* Bind file descriptor to our socket */
	bind(listenfd, (struct sockaddr *) &mysock, sizeof(mysock));

	/* And make our socket listen for incomming conncetions */
	listen(listenfd, 20);

	/* Set our listen socket blocking */
	flags = fcntl(listenfd, F_GETFL, 0);
	flags = flags & ~FNDELAY;  /* Turn blocking on */
	fcntl(listenfd, F_SETFL, flags);

	/* Infinite loop waiting for connections */
	for(;;)
	{
		connfd = accept(listenfd, (struct sockaddr *) cliaddr, &clilen);
		printf("If it were blocking, we shouldn't get here!\n");
		
			
		/* Here would be a pthread_create to handle the incomming connection */

	}

	return 0;
}

/***************************************************************************************/

The main point to focus on is the accept within the infinite for loop,
and the fact that it gets past that and prints out the message
continuously

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