Hi friends,

can any body help me in implementing a server program which conditionally accepts a connection from client in linux..

like WSAAccept() in windows....

Thanks in advance.......

No such API exists in most (non-Microsoft) sockets implermentations.

Here's why:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Netw..._21276182.html

What condition do you want to impose?

Thanks for ur reply


Actually my server will take max no of connections to be supported from a text file "parameters.txt"...

I just have to check the present connection number with this max no.

Hi, again -

Have you considered just setting the "backlog" parameter when you call "listen()"?

a) You've already accepted() "n" connections
b) The TCP/IP stack is queuing another "m" connections (as determined by "backlog")
c) Any connections n + m + 1 will automatically be rejected: just like you wanted to do with WSAAccept()

Just a thought ..

PS:
I looked up this question in my old copy of "Unix Network Programming, 2nd Ed", W. Richard Stevens earlier this evening ... and I *didn't* find a solution there, either. Sorry :-(