Passing pointer to SOCKADDR_IN and SOCKET in a function

Question

I have a function createServerSocket(). This function can be accessed by multiple threads for creating their sockets.

I want each thread to pass three arguments, a socketIdentifier, *sockaddr_in* and specific port number to createrServerSocket() function, so that each thread has a unique socket.

For this, I am passing socketIdentifier, *sockaddr_in* and specific port number to createrServerSocket() function as pointers so that socketIdentifier and socket created must be accessable inside thread.

Below is my code snippet:

VOID createServerSocket(SOCKADDR_IN *socket, SOCKET *socketIdentifier, int PORT)
{

   //Socket Binding//
   WSADATA wsa; 

   //Initialise winsock//
   if (WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2,2),&wsa) != 0)
      {
         exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
      }

   //Create a socket//
   if((*socketIdentifier = socket(AF_INET , SOCK_DGRAM , 0 )) == INVALID_SOCKET)
      {                 
         MessageBox(NULL,
                    "Socket not Created",
                    "Failure :(",
                    MB_ICONINFORMATION);
         exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
      }
   //Socket Created//

   //Prepare the sockaddr_in structure//
   *socket.sin_family = AF_INET;
   *socket.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY;
   *socket.sin_port = htons( PORT );

   //Bind//
   if( bind(socketIdentifier ,(struct sockaddr *)&socket , sizeof(socket)) == SOCKET_ERROR)
      {             
         MessageBox(NULL,
                    "Bind Failed",
                    "Failure :(",
                    MB_ICONINFORMATION);
         exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
      }
   //Else Bind Done//
   MessageBox(NULL,
              "Bind Done",
              "SUCCESS :)",
              MB_ICONINFORMATION);

}

Here is the calling function:

DWORD WINAPI threadProc(LPVOID param)
{
    SOCKADDR_IN socket;
    SOCKET socketIdentifier;
    createServerSocket(*socket,*socketIdentifier,8888); //Create a socket with a socketIdentifier and bind()ed to PORT#8888.
        //Do something at this socket
        Return TRUE;
}

These are the errors that I get:

error C2064: term does not evaluate to a function taking 3 arguments
error C2228: left of '.sin_family' must have class/struct/union error C2228: left of '.sin_addr' must have class/struct/union
error C2228: left of '.S_un' must have class/struct/union
error C2228: left of '.S_addr' must have class/struct/union error C2228: left of '.sin_port' must have class/struct/union
error C2070: ''unknown-type'': illegal sizeof operand

Line: if((*socketIdentifier = socket(AF_INET , SOCK_DGRAM , 0 )) == INVALID_SOCKET)

Error: error C2064: term does not evaluate to a function taking 3 arguments

Matt Johnson Matt Johnson · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-03T05:44:03

You have a variable named socket that is causing issues and compiler errors in your function createServerSocket. Please try something like this:

VOID createServerSocket(SOCKADDR_IN& sock, SOCKET& socketIdentifier, int PORT)
{

   //Socket Binding//
   WSADATA wsa; 

   //Initialise winsock//
   if (WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2,2),&wsa) != 0)
      {
         exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
      }

   //Create a socket//
   if((socketIdentifier = socket(AF_INET , SOCK_DGRAM , 0 )) == INVALID_SOCKET)
      {                 
         MessageBox(NULL,
                    "Socket not Created",
                    "Failure :(",
                    MB_ICONINFORMATION);
         exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
      }
   //Socket Created//

   //Prepare the sockaddr_in structure//
   sock.sin_family = AF_INET;
   sock.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY;
   sock.sin_port = htons( PORT );

}

DWORD WINAPI threadProc(LPVOID param)
{
    SOCKADDR_IN sock;
    SOCKET socketIdentifier;
    createServerSocket(sock,socketIdentifier,8888); //Create a socket with a socketIdentifier and bind()ed to PORT#8888.
        //Do something at this socket
        return TRUE;
}

Passing pointer to SOCKADDR_IN and SOCKET in a function

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