Thread: Accepting Sockets with accept()

Code:

if ((new_socket = accept(master_socket, (struct sockaddr *)&address, sizeof(address);/*&addrlen*/))<0)

If i didnt use new_socket what would i use to send and recv from?
I mean how does accept work? Do i have to make new_socket equal accept?
or can i just send information to mastersocket and exclude the over bearing
integer new_socket.


oh one more thing because i havent compiled my program yet I was wondering if
sizeof(address) would take the place of addrlen=sizeof(address) as I posted above.

System Calls or Bust

Originally Posted by linuxrelik

Code:

if ((new_socket = accept(master_socket, (struct sockaddr *)&address, sizeof(address);/*&addrlen*/))<0)

If i didnt use new_socket what would i use to send and recv from?
I mean how does accept work? Do i have to make new_socket equal accept?
or can i just send information to mastersocket and exclude the over bearing
integer new_socket.

If you didn't use new_socket, you couldn't send or recv anything. The socket you pass to accept has to have had bind() and listen() applied to it, so it's a server socket which can have many connections. It represents the socket at your local machine. The socket returned from accept() (assuming the call was successful) represents a connection to a remote peer. Although they are both represented by file descriptors, they are very different things. If you don't use the return value from accept(), you won't be able to talk to the remote peer in any way.

Originally Posted by linuxrelik

oh one more thing because i havent compiled my program yet I was wondering if
sizeof(address) would take the place of addrlen=sizeof(address) as I posted above.

You can't just pass in sizeof(address), because the third argument to accept() is a pointer to type socklen_t. Do something like this:

Code:

struct sockaddr addr;
socklen_t addrlen = sizeof(addr);
if ((new_socket = accept(master_socket, &addr, &addrlen)) < 0) {
    ...

I just wanted to mkae sure you understand the question and gave me the correct answer. if i use accept without using new_socket as the intiger then i cant send to mastersocket instead of sending to new_socket.

By the way thanks for you help.

Code:

int mastersocket;
fd_set descrip;
int activity, user;	
int client_socket[700];
int maxclients = 700;

if (mastersocket=socket(AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM
{
	fatal("Creating mastersocket, AF_INET SOCK
	exit(EXIT_FAILURE);  }
struct sockaddr_in address;
address.sin_family = AF_INET;
address.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY;
address.sin_port = htons(port);            
/*Binding a socket callled  mastersocket */
if(bind(mastersocket,(struct sockaddr *)&ad
{
	fatal("Binding mastersocket, AF_INET SOCK_
	exit(EXIT_FAILURE);  }
/* Listening to mastersocket */
   	if(listen(mastersocket, 3) == -1) 
{
	fatal("Listening to mastersocket, AF_INET 
	exit(EXIT_FAILURE);  }
fcntl(mastersocket, F_SETFL, FNDELAY);

Does anyone here know of a duplicate function like sleep
that accepts numbers like .5 or 1.75?