How to reset a socket back to blocking mode (after I set it to nonblocking mode)?

c sockets networking blocking nonblocking
n179911 picture n179911 · Jan 27, 2010 · Viewed 23.9k times · Source

I have read this regarding setting a socket to non-blocking mode.

http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_mono/libc.html#File-Status-Flags

Here is what I did:

static void setnonblocking(int sock)
{
    int opts;

    opts = fcntl(sock,F_GETFL);
    if (opts < 0) {
        perror("fcntl(F_GETFL)");
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }
    opts = (opts | O_NONBLOCK);
    if (fcntl(sock,F_SETFL,opts) < 0) {
        perror("fcntl(F_SETFL)");
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }
    return;
}

How can I set the socket back to Blocking mode? I don't see a O_BLOCK flag?

Thank you.

Answer

Aryabhatta picture Aryabhatta · Jan 27, 2010

Did you try clearing the O_NONBLOCK flag?

opts = opts & (~O_NONBLOCK)

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