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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: non-blocking accept on sockets
Message-ID: <12708@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jul 88 02:03:12 GMT
References: <354@litp.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <354@litp.UUCP> ratuld@litp.UUCP (Jean DERATULD p4055) writes:
>... The documentation on sockets says that there
>is some flag to have a blocking or non-blocking "accept" on sockets
>(the doc says about a SS_NBIO flag). The default is blocking sockets.
>Nothing is said about how to set it locally ....

The same way as any other non-blocking or no-delay I/O: either

	int on = 1, err;

	err = ioctl(fd, FIONBIO, &on);

or

	err = fcntl(fd, F_SETFL, FNDELAY);
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