Function accept() and its arguments.

krajzega · 01-19-2004, 05:34 PM

In a few manuals to programming sockets for Linux, I found this function. And everywhere is written that it expects int as a third argument- total size of a structure sockaddr_in. But no way. Gcc returns, that this function excepts the argument as a member of structure socklen_t. Could You write me a right call of this function and declaration of this argument ?

shishir · 01-20-2004, 01:26 AM

sockelen_t is #define'd to int,

main()
{
....
...
struct sockaddr_in peer;
int size;

...socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);

....bind(sockfd, ......);
listen(sockfd, .....);
size = sizeof(struct sockaddr_in);
new_fd = accept(sockfd, (struct sockaddr *)&their_addr, &size);
....
......

this should do...
try doing a man 2 accept , too