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From: SANDEEP@S63.Prime.COM
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: is it a socket or is it not?
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Date: 31 Jul 89 17:44:00 GMT
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generous@dgis.UUCP writes :
>What's a good method of determining whether a file descriptor
>is a socket or not?  The fstat(2) call does not work well on sockets

If you want the name of the socket also, try

if (getsockname(s,&..,&..) < 0) {
   if (errno == ENOTSOCK) {
      /* Is not a socket */
    }
}


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