-/* $Cambridge: exim/src/src/ip.c,v 1.5 2006/02/16 10:05:33 ph10 Exp $ */
+/* $Cambridge: exim/src/src/ip.c,v 1.7 2007/01/08 10:50:18 ph10 Exp $ */
/*************************************************
* Exim - an Internet mail transport agent *
*************************************************/
-/* Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 1995 - 2006 */
+/* Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 1995 - 2007 */
/* See the file NOTICE for conditions of use and distribution. */
/* Functions for doing things with sockets. With the advent of IPv6 this has
*************************************************/
/* This function connects a socket to a remote address and port. The socket may
-or may not have previously been bound to a local interface.
+or may not have previously been bound to a local interface. The socket is not
+closed, even in cases of error. It is expected that the calling function, which
+created the socket, will be the one that closes it.
Arguments:
sock the socket
/* A failure whose error code is "Interrupted system call" is in fact
an externally applied timeout if the signal handler has been run. */
-(void)close(sock);
errno = (save_errno == EINTR && sigalrm_seen)? ETIMEDOUT : save_errno;
return -1;
}