"Neal H. Walfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't understand. The connection is "actually" made when you call > connect. POSIX says[1]: > > If the initiating socket is connection-mode, then connect() shall > attempt to establish a connection to the address specified by the > address argument. If the connection cannot be established > immediately and O_NONBLOCK is not set for the file descriptor for > the socket, connect() shall block > > As I understand it, if connect succeeds, the connection has "actually" > been made. This is what my patch does.
Right, without anyone listening on the other end. In other words, normally the connection made means that both sides have, um, completed the connection. The change would allow the "connect" side to say "yep, got a connection" even though there is no listener. _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
