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Re: socket binding
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: socket binding
- From: "$Bill Luebkert" <dbe at wgn dot net>
- Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 20:59:34 -0700
- Organization: DBE Collectibles
- References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970811151933.8443B-100000@jade1>
- Reply-To: dbe at wgn dot net
Dong Zhou wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> A question about sockets.
>
> It seems that my program can't correctly bind a socket.
> The code is like following:
>
> if ((fd = socket(AF_INET, udp?SOCK_DGRAM:SOCK_STREAM, 0)) < 0)
> err("socket");
> if (bind(fd, &sinme, sizeof(sinme)) < 0)
> err("bind");
>
> The socket() call is successful but the bind() fails, and the error
> number it returned is 106, which, from "errno.h", is EAFNOSUPPORT.
That means address family not supported.
So what did you set the address family in sinme to?
> and, TCP/IP stuff seems are working well (at least I can use Netscape and
> ftp...) and the program actually works on Solaris. (The port number
> assigned is 5001)
>
> Can somebody tell me: what does the error mean? and what is the problem
> behind it? (something wrong with my NT system?)
Where's the rest of the pertinent code, like setting up sinme?
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