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From: goel@news.cs.columbia.edu (Shantanu Goel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Berkley Sockets, Accept System Call.
Date: 21 May 1994 18:45:44 -0400
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
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Keywords: BSD Sockets?

In article <Cq4A8G.LzC@mail.auburn.edu>,
Satish G. Ambati <sgambati@eng.auburn.edu> wrote:
>I am working with Berkley Sockets and I need some Information about the accept 
>system call. I am trying to get some information on making my accept system call non-blocking. I am clear with the concept and how it works, however I am having 
>some problems in Implementation and getting it to work. If anybody out there is 
>a socket Guru and have some kind of code to demonstrate this, I really appreciate
>any responses. Thanx,
>
>Satish. 
>
>
>


To make accept() non-blocking, you can select() on the descriptor as
if you were selecting for read().  Here's some pseudo-code.

	s = socket(...);
	bind(...);
	listen(s, ...);
	FD_ZERO(readfds)
	FD_SET(readfds, s);
	select(readfds, ...);
	if (FD_ISSET(readfds, s)) {
		accept(s, ...);
		...
	}

Hope this helps.

Shantanu