[asterisk-users] Why is this happening?

[Brian Candler]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 11:20:02AM -0500, Mitch Miller wrote:
> The "moving to another port" discussion is actually what happens with 
> sockets.  A socket listens on a designated port (ex: port 80) and when a 
> connection is made to that socket, another socket begins to listen to 
> port 80 for NEW connections.

Actually, the original socket continues to listen on port 80 for new
connections, whilst the accept() call creates a new socket for the accepted
connection.

>From the accept(2) manpage:

DESCRIPTION
       The  accept()  system  call  is used with connection-based socket types
       (SOCK_STREAM, SOCK_SEQPACKET and SOCK_RDM).  It extracts the first con‐
       nection request on the queue of pending connections, creates a new con‐
       nected socket, and returns a new  file  descriptor  referring  to  that
       socket.   The  newly created socket is not in the listening state.  The
       original socket sockfd is unaffected by this call.

Regards,

Brian.