zero-byte write to a socket fails

by Gary Mil » Wed, 19 Apr 1995 04:00:00

I compiled the Dartmouth College adjusting rdate under Solaris 2.4, and
discovered that this code:

/*
* The protocol [RFC 868] calls for a null packet
* to be sent to the server first. Then it sends the
* time of day value.
*/
if (write(sock, (char *)&rtime, 0) < 0) {
perror("\nrdate: write");
return(0);
}

fails because the write() returns ERANGE. Is this perchance a bug?

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-Gary Mills- -Unix Support- -U of M Computer Services-

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