Problem getting non-blocking sockets going on BSD 2.11

[Tobias Russell]

Thanks Dave, the fixed it.

All the best,
Toby

On 28 February 2010 15:32, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
> On Feb 28, 2010, at 5:52 AM, Tobias Russell wrote:
>>
>> I'm in the midst of writing a MUD for PDP-11s running under BSD 2.11
>> and have run into a problem getting non-blocking I/O working.
>>
>> I initially wrote a simple test program to setup a non-blocking socket
>> and accept connections then echo back anything typed to all connected
>> sessions. This worked fine. However now I've placed the exact same
>> code into my MUD development, the sockets are blocking.
>>
>> I've got the following in my setup of the socket:
>>
>> /* Set socket to non-blocking */
>>  if( ioctl(s,FIONBIO) == -1 ) {
>>    printf("Error ocurred");
>> }
>>
>> which I believe should make the socket non-block and when I run up the
>> code it doesn't throw a failure on the ioctl, however the socket
>> definitely remains in blocking mode.
>>
>> Anyone have any ideas? I've been scratching my head on this one for days
>> now
>
>  FIONBIO takes an argument, which is a pointer to an integer.  Here's how
> you want to do this under 2.11BSD:
>
> -------------------------
>  int on = 1;
> ...
> ...
> ...
>  if (ioctl(s, FIONBIO, &on) == -1) {
>    printf("ioctl() failed\n");
>  }
> -------------------------
>
>            -Dave
>>
>
>
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