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From: net@tub.UUCP (Oliver Laumann)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Passing 0 to accept(2) as second and third argument.
Message-ID: <957@tub.UUCP>
Date: 19 Sep 89 09:26:20 GMT
References: <7936@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: net@tub.UUCP (Oliver Laumann)
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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In article <7936@cbmvax.UUCP> ag@cbmvax.UUCP (Keith Gabryelski) writes:
> 	while (accept(s, 0, 0) < 0) {
> 
> I am wondering if this is actually considered a feature [..]

It's an undocumented feature of at least 4.3 BSD.  By the way, the call to
accept() should probably read "accept(s, (struct sockaddr *)0, (int *)0)".

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Oliver Laumann              net@TUB.BITNET              net@tub.UUCP