Re: Socket vs File descriptor

["YOSHIFUJI Hideaki (åè èæ)"]

KV Pavuram wrote:
> Is there any  ioctl call to determine if a given descriptor is a file descriptor or a socket descriptor.
>
> Similarly, is there a way to find out a socket descriptor type ie.e if it is SOCK_STREAM, or SOCK_DGRAM type.

Maybe "lsof" command is your friend.

Or, depending on your purpose, you can use
getsockopt(), listen() etc. to get error
(e.g. ENOTSOCK) to test the type.

--yoshfuji
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