Re: connect(2) behavior with unreacheable hosts

>Dans un e-mail daté du 10/04/03 22:56:31 Paris, Madrid (Heure d'été), 
barney_at_pit.databus.com a écrit :
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>On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 03:45:54PM -0400, BelletJr_at_aol.com wrote:
>> 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.
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>By any chance, are you using UDP (SOCK_DGRAM) rather than TCP (SOCK_STREAM)?
>That sets up data structures but sends no packets, so even if an icmp
>time-exceeded will be returned when you do send packets, the problem
>can't be detected yet.

Thanks for your time.
No, it happens well and truly with SOCK_STREAM.

Jerome