Re: [gentoo-embedded] sys/socket.h - no close() ?

[Bob Dunlop]

On Thu, Jan 17 at 04:51, Mathieu Dube wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 04:44:43PM -0500, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote:
> > Usually, I would call 'closesocket' (on Windows) or 'close' on *nix but
> > the sys/socket.h file doesn't define a close function, so which close do
> > I call?
>
> you can call close included unistd.h on the fd(socket)
>
> or shutdown from sys/socket.h

Uhm.  shutdown() does not release the file/socket descriptor and you
still need to call close().  Simpler just to call close() in the
first place.


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        Bob Dunlop
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