FreeTDS Development Group

["Frank M. Kromann" <frank AT kromann.info>]

Hi James,

Thanks for the reply. I'll do some more debugging on Monday ( I have this
on my computer at work). Perhaps the changed to login.c causes this. I'll
let you know what I find out.

- Frank

> On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 17:08:32 -0700, "Frank M. Kromann"
> <frank AT kromann.info> wrote:
> > I have compiled dblib on Win32, and changed the mssql extension for
PHP
> > to use this library. Everything compiles links and loads fine, but
when
> > I try to connect I get this error:
> > 
> > src/tds/login.c: tds_connect (timed): Invalid argument
> 
> Hi Frank, 
> 
> I don't know what led us to use perror(3) there instead of
tds_dump()....
> 
> The error means that connect(2) was passed something invalid.  Timeout
> handling was changed recently; I wonder if there's a missing/wrong
defined
> constant being used to set up struct sockaddr under Win32?  There's not
> enough information in the log to know.  Does your preprocessor see
> SO_LINGER and/or SO_KEEPALIVE ?  Does the same thing happen if you undo
> the changes from 1.96 to 1.97 of login.c?  We don't check the return
codes
> for the ioctl() calls; perhaps one of them is going awry silently.  
> 
> I don't think my iconv work could affect this....
> 
> I don't see that you're "missing" anything.  Clearly under Win32 the
error
> message could be better (what's new?).  The trick lies in finding out
> what's making connect() unhappy.  Please try making the error checking
> more pedantic and see if that flushes anything out.  Let me know if
> there's something you think I should/could do.  
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> --jkl
>