Handling more than one request on a socket

brueckd at tbye.com brueckd at tbye.com
Wed Aug 29 10:05:18 EDT 2001


On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, John Roth wrote:

> Doesn't your listen have to be in a loop? Each time it returns, the return
> from listen is a new connection socket descriptor (file descriptor). Then
> you
> spin off whatever you need to do to handle the connection - a new
> process, thread or whatever.

No! You need to call listen only once. You call accept over and over, but
not listen.

-Dave





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