On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:33:23AM +0000, Henry Richard wrote:
> This time I upgrade my cygwin version to 1.3.20 and using gcc 3.2. The
> program I submit last time does work in this new environment. How ever, I
> have found that fork() can't be executed twice before closing the socket,
> otherwise the telnet client will be blocked unless giving it a ^].
>
> I think this problem is also caused by Winsock2 in Windows 2000 system,
> according to Microsoft KB.
> [...]
I did play with sockets a lot to get it working almost as on POSIX
systems. Actually I have no way around the described problem so far
as long as the application isn't changed.
However, the change is simple and useful, just add a shutdown() call
prior to the child's close():
> loop=2;/* if loop is greater than 1, socket won't be closed
> */
> for (i = 0; i < loop; i++) {
> pid = fork();
> if (pid > 0) {
> close(accefd);
> return 0;
> }
> }
shutdown (accefd, SHUT_RDWR);
> close(accefd);
> sleep(100000);
> }
> }
This helps.
Corinna
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