Problem with socketpair , AF_UNIX and select call - can anybody through any light on this!

[Howard Wilkinson]

Stephen Croll wrote:
> Miles Sabin wrote:
>> Try losing the shutdowns ... you just need to close.
>>   
>
> Yes. Definitely lose the shutdowns.  The close() function decrements 
> the descriptor's reference count.  The socket is really only 
> terminated when the reference count goes to zero.  Shutdown, on the 
> other hand, will terminate the socket no matter what the reference 
> count is.
>
> In your case, shutdown causes the parent to terminate the child's 
> socket and vice-versa.  The sockets and corresponding file descriptors 
> are no longer valid.
> -- 
> Steve Croll
>
Got it ... that fixes the problem for both SOCK_DGRAM and SOCK_STREAM 
... thanks everybody I knew I was being thick somewhere!

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