On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Dr. Richard W. Tibbs wrote: > > I have sporadically had the same problem, probably due to network > misconfig on my end. > What I am still curious about --- maybe someone can explain this --- is > why a unix socket system call, sendto(), is being invoked by ping --- > which assumedly would be using inet calls like listen() and accept(). > Sendto() should only be used for IPC on the same machine, right?
No. I haven't done much network programming, but I am pretty sure sendto should be used whenever you want to send a connectionless message. [...] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...2k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user