Passing 0 to accept(2) as second and third argument.

Oliver Laumann net at tub.UUCP
Tue Sep 19 19:26:20 AEST 1989


In article <7936 at cbmvax.UUCP> ag at cbmvax.UUCP (Keith Gabryelski) writes:
> 	while (accept(s, 0, 0) < 0) {
> 
> I am wondering if this is actually considered a feature [..]

It's an undocumented feature of at least 4.3 BSD.  By the way, the call to
accept() should probably read "accept(s, (struct sockaddr *)0, (int *)0)".

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Oliver Laumann              net at TUB.BITNET              net at tub.UUCP



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