In message <m3pt94bh3p.fsf@gossamer.airs.com>, you write: 

-> "Charles M. Hannum" <abuse@spamalicious.com> writes:
-> 
-> > How is the application ever supposed to know that the connect() has 
-> > completed?  
-> 
-> select()?

and/or getsockopt with SOL_SOCKET/SO_ERROR...

--rafal

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Rafal Boni                                                     rafal@pobox.com
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