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Subject: winsock / socket( ) woes

Author: James Swafford

Date: 17:16:16 03/15/00


I'm at the point now that I'm ready to set up data
exchange between my Windows GUI and linux based
console engine.

In the GUI, I've called the WSASTARTUP( ) function,
and it didn't produce any errors.  The socket function
refuses to create a SOCKET.

Here's the proto for socket():

SOCKET socket(int address_family,int connection_type,int protocol);

I'm trying to use PF_INET (AF_INET) for the address family,
of course.  I'd prefer a connection oriented connection,
so I'm using SOCK_STREAM next.  Regardless of what I try
for protocol (TCP, etc.), I get a -1 from WSALASTERROR.

I don't have a network adapter in the piece right now, so
I'm not sure if that's the problem.  Seems to me that I should
at least be able to create the socket, just not bind it.

Help greatly appreciated.

--
James



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