Thread: how to block a socket indefinitely

Hi everybody,

When a socket is created, by default it is a blocking socket. Under blocking mode socket I/O operations, connect and accept operations all block until the operation in question is completed.
I want to receive data periodically from a client. That is, the first time I receive data the socket is blocked in the accept function but the next time is not blocked anymore and I want that it waits for the next incoming data.
I used the ioctlsocket function after the accept function this way:

Code:

AcceptSocket = SOCKET_ERROR;
		while (AcceptSocket == SOCKET_ERROR)
		{
			AcceptSocket = accept(socketInTCP, NULL, NULL);
                        ioctlsocket=(socketInTCP, FIONBIO, &imode);
		}

but I get this error message at the ioctlsocket function: 10093, and I read that is because the WSAStartup() was wrong but it isn't so.

Can you help me
thank you very much.

can you explain me a little bit more? I think I can use this select function to have a server with concurrent clients but I haven't this. I have a server for an iterative client.

thank you

You may want to try this forum.