The program below tries to connect to a port on the local host. That connection attempt fails. It listens for the failure via poll on a non-blocking socket. The poll signals when the connect attempt has failed. That's all good and well, and works as advertised.
Well, almost.
According to the manual page, poll should return 1 (the failed "connect" counts as being ready for I/O):
Poll() returns the number of descriptors that are ready for I/O, or -1 if
an error occurred. If the time limit expires, poll() returns 0.
i=2?
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <poll.h>
#include <sys/fcntl.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <netinet/tcp.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>
int main(void)
{
/* Make a TCP socket.
*/
int s = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
if (s == -1) { perror("socket"); return 1; }
/* Set the socket to non-blocking.
*/
int flags;
if ((flags = fcntl(s, F_GETFL, 0)) < 0)
{ perror("fcntl-1"); exit(1); }
if (fcntl(s, F_SETFL, flags | O_NONBLOCK) != 0)
{ perror("fcntl-2"); exit(1); }
/* Get the address of some uninhabited port on localhost.
*/
struct sockaddr_in sin = { .sin_port = htons(1133) };
inet_aton("127.0.0.1", &sin.sin_addr);
/* Asynchronous connect. Will start out with EINPROGRESS,
* then signal completion (and an error) via poll().
*/
if ( connect(s, (struct sockaddr *)&sin, sizeof(sin)) != 0
&& errno != EINPROGRESS) { perror("connect"); return 1; }
struct pollfd pfd = { .fd=s, .events=POLLIN|POLLOUT };
int i = poll(&pfd, 1, -1);
/* MacOS 10.5.8-10.6.4: i=2. WTF?
*/
printf("i=%d\n", i);
return 0;
}
Clues welcome,
jutta@pobox.com, Feb 20 2010, last update Jul 18 2010.