Re: Example socket program to send data to a non IBM i device

[B Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 12:37 PM Kevin Adler <kadler@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>         C*************************************************
>         C* Connect to the requested host
>         C*************************************************
>         C                   if        connect(sock: p_connto: addrlen) < 0
>         c                   eval      msg = 'unable to connect to server!'
>         c*                  dsply                   msg
>         c                   exsr      error_message
>
>    This error check is not actually correct: when using non-blocking
> sockets
>    with TCP, connect() will return -1 and set errno to EINPROGRESS:
>
>    [1]
> https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_ibm_i_73/apis/connec.htm
>
>    In this case, you'll need to use the poll() or select() APIs to
> determine
>    when the connection has actually been established:
>    [2]
> https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_ibm_i_73/rzab6/poll.htm

This is correct.