RE:

Yes you can, I agree.  I support 200 simultaneous connections.  His code is
set to only allow one connection.  If that is not closed correctly then he
cannot accept a second.  Take another look at his RPG listen statement.  He
specified 1 for max connections.  I was stating that he must close and
delete the Socket Descriptor before he can accept a second connection.  Your
step 6 is critical to accepting a new connection.

Christopher K. Bipes      mailto:ChrisB@Cross-Check.com
Operations & Network Mgr  mailto:Chris_Bipes@Yahoo.com
CrossCheck, Inc.                  http://www.cross-check.com
6119 State Farm Drive     Phone: 707 586-0551 x 1102
Rohnert Park CA  94928    Fax: 707 586-1884

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Klement [mailto:klemscot@klements.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 7:28 AM
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: 



This simply isn't true.   You can accept more than one connection without
closing the socket in between.  I do it every day.

The pseudocode should look something like this:

     1) call socket() to get a new descriptor
     2) Call bind() to bind to a port
     3) call listen() to tell the system you want to accept connections
     4) call accept() to get a new connection from a client
     5) do something with the client
     6) close the client's descriptor (the one returned by accept())
     7) go back to step 4.
+---
| This is the Midrange System Mailing List!
| To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com.
| To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com.
| To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com.
| Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com
+---