is it a socket or is it not?

[SANDEEP at S63.Prime.COM]

generous at dgis.UUCP writes :
>What's a good method of determining whether a file descriptor
>is a socket or not?  The fstat(2) call does not work well on sockets

If you want the name of the socket also, try

if (getsockname(s,&..,&..) < 0) {
   if (errno == ENOTSOCK) {
      /* Is not a socket */
    }
}


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