recv with non-blocking socket

Question

I am trying to implement non-blocking for socket recv and the problem is that I got an error -1 when there in no data but I expect to get EAGAIN error.

Socket is set definitely to non-blocking state, I checked flags = fcntl(s, F_GETFL, 0) for O_NONBLOCK flag.

Thanks a lot in advance!

#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <linux/if_packet.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <net/if.h>
#include <netinet/ether.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <asm-generic/errno-base.h>
#include <assert.h>

#define ETH_FRAME_LEN_MY 1400

void print(void *buf, int length)
{
    int i;
        for (i = 0; i < length; ++i)
            putchar(((char *)buf)[i]);
    printf("\n");
}

int main(){

    int flags, s, r, err; 

    struct sockaddr_ll socket_addr;
        char ifName[IFNAMSIZ] = "eth0";

        struct ifreq if_idx;
        struct ifreq if_mac;

    s = socket(PF_PACKET, SOCK_RAW, htons(0x88b6));
    if (s == -1) { perror("socket"); }

    flags = fcntl(s,F_GETFL,0);
    assert(flags != -1);
    fcntl(s, F_SETFL, flags | O_NONBLOCK);

    flags = fcntl(s, F_GETFL, 0);
        if ((flags & O_NONBLOCK) == O_NONBLOCK) {
            printf("it's nonblocking");
        }
        else {
            printf("it's blocking.");
        }

    /* Get the index of the interface to send on */
    memset(&if_idx, 0, sizeof(struct ifreq));
    strncpy(if_idx.ifr_name, ifName, IFNAMSIZ-1);
    if (ioctl(s, SIOCGIFINDEX, &if_idx) < 0)
        {perror("SIOCGIFINDEX");}

        memset(&socket_addr, 0, sizeof(socket_addr));
        socket_addr.sll_ifindex = if_idx.ifr_ifindex;
        socket_addr.sll_protocol = htons(0x88b5);
        socket_addr.sll_family = PF_PACKET;
        socket_addr.sll_pkttype = PACKET_OUTGOING;


        r = bind(s, (struct sockaddr*)&socket_addr,
                        sizeof(socket_addr));
    if ( r < 0) { perror("bind"); }

    void* buffer = (void*)malloc(ETH_FRAME_LEN_MY); /*Buffer for ethernet frame*/
    int length = 0; /*length of the received frame*/ 


    while(1){
        printf("1\n");
        length = recv(s, buffer, ETH_FRAME_LEN_MY, 0);
        printf("2\n");
        if (length < 0)
            {
            if (length == -EAGAIN)
                printf("non-blocking succeeded\n");
            else printf("error code %i\n", length);
            }           
        //printf ("buffer %s\n", buffer);
        print(buffer, length);
    }
    return 0;

}

Answer 1

I got an error -1 when there in no data but I expect to get EAGAIN error.

-1 tells you there is an error. errno tells you what the error was.