On Mar 28, 10:23, "Daniel O'Connor" wrote: } Subject: Re: sendto() giving EPERM outside a jail } } On Saturday 24 March 2007 02:47, Steve Watt wrote: } > >According to my reading of the man page it is not possible to get this } > > error unless I'm using jails (which I'm not). The code in question does. } > That's probably a buglet in the man page. } } I guess it would be nice if the man page(s) mentioned that a firewall could } cause EPERM. I have seen it before with other apps but the sendto() confused } me.
It's one of those unpleasant interactions between pluggable subsystems, so it's a bit tough to document -- there are various different firewalls available, after all. } > >Can someone shed light on what the problem is? The application appears to } > > work fine even with this error though. } > } > man setsockopt, search for SO_BROADCAST. } } It doesn't say anything about EPERM. If you're sending broadcast broadcast or multicast datagrams, you need to set the SO_BROADCAST socket option, as well. -- Steve Watt KD6GGD PP-ASEL-IA ICBM: 121W 56' 57.5" / 37N 20' 15.3" Internet: steve @ Watt.COM Whois: SW32-ARIN Free time? There's no such thing. It just comes in varying prices... _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
