On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:39 PM, wimpunk <wimpunk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
