Bug #7576 Updated: socket() always fails with an "Unknown error"

ID: 7576 Updated by: danbeck Reported By: mitch@venux.net Old-Status: Analyzed Status: Closed Bug Type: Documentation problem Operating system: PHP Version: 4.0.3pl1 Assigned To: Comments: This behaviour has already been documented, including the reference to the socket(2) man page. Previous Comments: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2000-11-01 18:51:09] chrisv@php.net Read your local man page on socket(2). Most of the functions in the sockets extension return >= 0 on success and < 0 on error. Reclassified as a documentation problem. Docs writers: feel free to bug me on the semantics of the functions in the module and such :) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2000-11-01 18:07:20] mitch@venux.net Something like if ( ($iSockFD = socket (AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM,0) ) != 0) { print "Call to socket() failed: reason: " . strerror ($iSockFD) . "n"; exit(); } That results in an "Unknown error 4294967293" message from strerror() in Linux kernel 2.2.16.. A "Unknown error: -3" in FreeBSD 4.0 -- no matter what user I am, this error occurs on both operating systems.. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ATTENTION! Do NOT reply to this email! To reply, use the web interface found at http://bugs.php.net/?id=7576&edit=2