Re: [Chicken-users] How to convert an UDP socket to file descriptor

[Peter Bex]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:20:18AM -0300, Alexsandro Soares wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>     I'm new in Chicken and I'm trying to write a small UDP client
> using file-select. But i get the following error:
> 
>            Error: (port->fileno) argument is not a port: 45691

I think you confused Scheme's concept of ports with the OS concept of
ports on network interfaces.  udp-bound-port doesn't return a Scheme
port!  Instead, it returns the network port number it's bound to.

I think you can just change it to (port->fileno port), where port
is the cadr of SP.

Cheers,
Peter
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