Re: Socket client and server talking to each other on same system?

Yes, I do it all the time. For gethostbyname I use the special value
LOCALHOST.

Bruce Vining




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I have a socket server program supporting multiple connections. I want to
be able to gracefully shut down the server program. So I thought I'd use a

socket client to connect to the server program and through a socket
connection tell the server program to end.

In my client program, when I perform the gethostbyname function, it
returns a null. So I deduced that it can't resolve since the communication

is 'redunant' (for lack of a better term), since the client and server are

already 'connnected' by virtue of their existence on the same system.

So the question is can I use a socket client connection to tell my server
program to shutdown when both programs are on the same system?

Regards, Jerry

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