How to reset a socket back to blocking mode (after I set it to nonblocking mode)?
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Here is a more cross-platform capable solution:
bool set_blocking_mode(int socket, bool is_blocking)
{
bool ret = true;
#ifdef WIN32
/// @note windows sockets are created in blocking mode by default
// currently on windows, there is no easy way to obtain the socket's current blocking mode since WSAIsBlocking was deprecated
u_long non_blocking = is_blocking ? 0 : 1;
ret = NO_ERROR == ioctlsocket(socket, FIONBIO, &non_blocking);
#else
const int flags = fcntl(socket, F_GETFL, 0);
if ((flags & O_NONBLOCK) && !is_blocking) { info("set_blocking_mode(): socket was already in non-blocking mode"); return ret; }
if (!(flags & O_NONBLOCK) && is_blocking) { info("set_blocking_mode(): socket was already in blocking mode"); return ret; }
ret = 0 == fcntl(socket, F_SETFL, is_blocking ? flags ^ O_NONBLOCK : flags | O_NONBLOCK));
#endif
return ret;
}
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n179911
Updated on May 26, 2020Comments
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n179911 almost 4 years
I have read this regarding setting a socket to non-blocking mode.
http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_mono/libc.html#File-Status-Flags
Here is what I did:
static void setnonblocking(int sock) { int opts; opts = fcntl(sock,F_GETFL); if (opts < 0) { perror("fcntl(F_GETFL)"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } opts = (opts | O_NONBLOCK); if (fcntl(sock,F_SETFL,opts) < 0) { perror("fcntl(F_SETFL)"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } return; }
How can I set the socket back to Blocking mode? I don't see a O_BLOCK flag?
Thank you.