Re: Error in the example of getaddrinfo

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:39 PM, wimpunk
<wimpunk@...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I believe there is a bug in de client example code of getaddrinfo.  It
> is in the ubuntu 10.10 man pages (Version: 3.24-1ubuntu1) and also on
> http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man3/getaddrinfo.3.html.
> The 'close(sfd);' will never happen and using the code in a loop, it
> will cause your system running out of filedescriptors (at least,
> that's what happened to me).  To use the code cleanly, you should code
> the sfd after the last printf.

Am I missing something? The close() will happen whenever bind() fails,
which is what is desired.

Cheers,

Michael

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Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/
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