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Date:      Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:23:27 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Steve Watt <steve@watt.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sendto() giving EPERM outside a jail
Message-ID:  <200703281023.35665.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <200703231617.l2NGHDlu074159@wattres.watt.com>
References:  <200703231617.l2NGHDlu074159@wattres.watt.com>

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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=
=2E.
> 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=
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cause EPERM. I have seen it before with other apps but the sendto() confuse=
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me.

> >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.

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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are so many of them to choose from."
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