connect(2) behavior with unreacheable hosts

From: <BelletJr_at_aol.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:45:54 EDT
Hi all,

Why does not connect(2) return any error when trying to connect to a host 
unreachable because of an infinite loop in the routes? No time-out occurs and 
the value 0 is returned by connect(2).
My test was done with TCP/IPv4.

Jerome
Received on Thu Apr 10 2003 - 10:46:31 UTC

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