Re: Different socket types ... no response!

Umm. Shouldn't it be AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM? My gut instinct tells me you're
using the wrong address family. Mind you, so does the error message.

D

David Richards wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Some of you may be aware that I've been playing with squid, it the
> authentication area. I have just tried to place into squid a socket of
> the type AF_UNIX, SOCK_DGRAM.
>
> When I try and write to this socket using "sendto", an error is
> generated errno equals 47 (EAFNOSUPPORT) which means :
>
> "Address family not supported by protocol family"
>
> Now what puzzles me is that the calls I am using have been proven
> time and time again, because I have created a library of these calls.
>
> Why will these not work in squid??
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave.
>
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