Re: Possible 2.0.x connect() bug

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 14 Aug 1999 00:10:05 +0100 (BST)

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> I have some code which does the following:
>
> 1) create a TCP socket with socket()
> 2) attempts to connect with connect()
> 3) If the connect() failed with errno set to ECONNREFUSED, waits 2 seconds and
> tries again
>
> With the 2.0.5 and 2.0.10 kernels, the 2nd connect() call fails with errno set
> to EINVAL.

This is correct. POSIX 1003.1g draft 6.5 covers this. You should close the
socket

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