Re: Cygwin 1.5.18: Problem using setsockopt() for multicast

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Aug 17 09:06, Brian Ford wrote:
> My point should have been that I use this construct every day in 1.5.18
> and 1.5.21 within our application and it works fine.  I saw very few
> differences.  Here is my snippet in case I missed something else obvious:
> 
> fd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
> 
> Oh yeah, you must call the setsockopt below after the bind on windows.
> Search MSDN for why.

Uh, that's the important clue!  I didn't know that and would have been
puzzled by this and found the relevant article in MSDN only after hours
of debugging.  Thanks for the information, it's pretty valuable.


Corinna


P.S.: Do you know the MSDN articel off-hand, maybe?

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