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Re: Need tips to open a socket and to debug it

From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 19:16:23 +0100
Subject: Re: Need tips to open a socket and to debug it
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On Jan 18 18:10, Henri wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:
> 
> > There's no firewall involved if a simple socket call goes wrong.
> > For AF_LOCAL Cygwin opens an AF_INET socket, but which is unbound
> > until you call bind or connect.
> 
> s/AF_INET/AF_UNIX/ ????? (sorry for my intrusion)

AF_UNIX == AF_LOCAL.  Not available on Windows so needs emulation.
The emulation uses local-only AF_INET sockets.


Corinna

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