Re: connect(2)/accept(2) oddity

Ton Hospel (thospel@mail.dma.be)
27 Jun 1998 19:37:34 GMT

In article <199806270720.RAA05851@workaholix.atnf.csiro.au>,
Richard.Gooch@atnf.csiro.au writes:
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>
> This seems strange to me. It appears connect(2) is returning before
> the accept(2) completes. Am I missing something here, or is Linux
> behaving strangely?
>
> Regards,

These are normal semantics. What you do in an accept is picking up a
socket for which the kernel has tried to finish (and usually succeeded)
the three way handshake.

So accept just picks up a socket for which a connection has been done. What
you setup with the listen(2) parameter is how many of these the kernel can have
pending for you.

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