On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Thomas Page wrote:
> The problem I have is that: after a connection is made, then control
> reverts back to the main program, and ultimately sits waiting for action
> in the 'select', as it enters the select, the fd for the TCP causes a
> 'Bad File Descriptor' from strerror(errno).
> 1) Is it OK to use select for more than just making connections?

Um, you don't make connections with select(2), you just "wait" with it for
a set of descriptors to become read/writable.


> 2) Is there some other lurking error, I've had 'TCP persistance'
> mentioned, bearing in mind that the problem is erratic.

No idea what this is.

I'm not an expert in network programming, but maybe you want to have a
look at the new (2nd) edition of Richard Stevens: Unix Network
Programming. It contains discussion on a lot of these topics.


 - Hubert

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