[Gllug] OT: Socket Programming

[Christian Smith]

t.clarke uttered:

> Well
>
> I have quite a few udp applications and they all use recv  and reply to
> the originator quite happily.
>
> Offhand I am not sure exactly how I do it, but if you want some specimen 
> code, happy to oblige.


You are probably connected using connect(2). Else, send has no way to 
determine the destination address.

To the OP, you may as well just use recvfrom, else you have no way of 
sending a response back to an arbitrary client. send(2) cannot be used on 
a socket that is not in the connected state.


>
> Tim
>

Christian

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