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I am very noob and i have a question to know if its possible to send/recv on the same socket since recv/recvfrom are blocking my code ?

int main(void) {
    struct sockaddr_in si_me, si_other;
    int s, i, slen=sizeof(si_other);
    char buf[BUFLEN];

    if ((s=socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_UDP))==-1)
        die("socket");

    memset((char *) &si_me, 0, sizeof(si_me));
    si_me.sin_family = AF_INET;
    si_me.sin_port = htons(1234);
    si_me.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(192.168.1.1);

    if (bind(s, &si_me, sizeof(si_me))==-1)
        die("bind");

    recvfrom(s, buf, BUFLEN, 0, &si_other, &slen;
      
   

    close(s);
    return 0;
}

Thanks!

jonylafripouille
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Yes you can !

However Just be cautioned that the next read or recv might read a different datagram. UDP datagrams are always discardable you can still flag your recv() with MsgPEEK or something like that

see this topic here , i think you take the code from that guy isn't ? :)

if your lazy here is the code from the topic

    struct sockaddr_in si_me, si_other;
    int s, i, blen, slen = sizeof(si_other);
    char buf[BUFLEN];

    s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_UDP);
    if (s == -1)
        die("socket");

    memset((char *) &si_me, 0, sizeof(si_me));
    si_me.sin_family = AF_INET;
    si_me.sin_port = htons(1234);
    si_me.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(192.168.1.1);

    if (bind(s, (struct sockaddr*) &si_me, sizeof(si_me))==-1)
        die("bind");

    int blen = recvfrom(s, buf, sizeof(buf), 0, (struct sockaddr*) &si_other, &slen);
    if (blen == -1)
       diep("recvfrom()");

    printf("Data: %.*s \nReceived from %s:%d\n\n", blen, buf, inet_ntoa(si_other.sin_addr), ntohs(si_other.sin_port));

    //send answer back to the client
    if (sendto(s, buf, blen, 0, (struct sockaddr*) &si_other, slen) == -1)
        diep("sendto()");

    close(s);
    return 0;
}```
et11enne
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