Esix and getpeername

[Wayne McCormick]

Has anyone out there tried to use the getpeername() call in ESIX? It appears
to be broken, that is, it doesn't return ENOTCONN when you give it a socket
that is not connected with anything.  This is a rather critical thing, as I
am involved with writing some code that is used within a systems software
class.  Briefly, there is a simple daemon and several clients.  The clients
are started by students who are accessing the system via programs that they
have written.  As a result, if their programs crash, the resulting reboot
causes the server to be killed. This means that the daemon must be able to
determine if a client has up and died -- getpeername() is the only call I
know of that does this.  Due to some portability restrictions, sockets
*must* be used.  As an aside, ESIX sockets aren't really that bad.  With a
few #ifdefs, this code is portable to Sun and Ultrix systems.

Any ideas? (The ESIX getpeername() call never returns an error state, hence
the problem.)

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Mike Hoffos