Re: Are negative socket descriptors valid? -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Are negative socket descriptors valid?
From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:24:41 -0500
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On 9/30/2011 7:55 AM, Maassel, John R. wrote:

Are negatives allowed? If they are not, why is the system suddenly
returning negative sockets? We upgraded from V5R4 to 6.1 about a
month ago.

A negative value indicates an error. I _think_ anything zero or higher is a valid socket.

If you are getting a negative value, you should check the error codes.

Scott Klement's socket's tutorials are the definitive work on the subject in my opinion (http://urlq.us/sksock).

david

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