I had this working previously, but I didn't understand how, so I'm attempting to rewrite a bit of code.
Everything seems to be going fine, except when I try to use getaddrinfo(), I'm getting back a result of -7, which translates into the error "ai_socktype not supported".
I'm willing to bet it's simply me still getting a handle on pointers. If someone can explain how/where I'm going wrong, I would appreciate it.
The code:
#define PORT "4400"
typedef struct {
int port;
fd_set *connections;
int connections_count;
int listener;
struct addrinfo *address;
struct addrinfo *socket_hints;
} Server;
void initialize_server(Server *passed_server, char *port) {
struct addrinfo *temp;
int status; // Get addrinfo status
// Set up the server hints
passed_server->socket_hints = malloc(sizeof passed_server->socket_hints);
passed_server->socket_hints->ai_family = AF_UNSPEC;
passed_server->socket_hints->ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM;
passed_server->socket_hints->ai_flags = AI_PASSIVE;
if((status = getaddrinfo(NULL, port, passed_server->socket_hints, &temp)) != 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "Error with getaddrinfo: %s\n", gai_strerror(status));
}
printf("Result: %d\n", status);
}
int main(int argc, char** argv) {
// Set up socket stuff
Server *server = malloc(sizeof *server); // Set up the server
initialize_server(server, PORT);
return (EXIT_SUCCESS);
}