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11 years ago

Modifying SSS example to use SOCK_DGRAM

I made a trivial change today to the Simple Socket Server example that comes with the altera software. I changed the SOCK_STREAM to SOCK_DGRAM. Now the listen() fails for some reason, but errno is ...
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11 years ago

You cannot use listen or accept with message-oriented (=dgram) sockets.

They makes sense only with stream sockets which are connection-oriented