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UPD listener on *.*?  
On a stripped down system running QNX 6.4.1 on a PPC platform, a 'netstat' command shows the following:

# netstat
Active Internet connections
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q  Local Address          Foreign Address        State
udp        0      0  *.*                    *.*

A 'pidin fd' doesn't show anyone with an open socket listening.

Any idea why it shows a listener when no process (that I know of) is actually listening?

The pidin list is as follows:

# pidin
     pid tid name               prio STATE       Blocked
       1   1 ke-instr-qnx641-p1   0f READY
       1   3 ke-instr-qnx641-p1  10r RECEIVE     1
       1   4 ke-instr-qnx641-p1  10r RECEIVE     1
       1   5 ke-instr-qnx641-p1  10r RECEIVE     1
       1   7 ke-instr-qnx641-p1  10r RECEIVE     1
       1   9 ke-instr-qnx641-p1  10r RECEIVE     1
       1  10 ke-instr-qnx641-p1  10r RECEIVE     1
       1  13 ke-instr-qnx641-p1  10r RECEIVE     1
       1  14 ke-instr-qnx641-p1  10r RUNNING
       1  15 ke-instr-qnx641-p1 255r RECEIVE     1
       1  17 ke-instr-qnx641-p1  10r RECEIVE     1
       1  18 ke-instr-qnx641-p1  10r RECEIVE     1
       2   1 sbin/devc-ser8250   10r RECEIVE     1
       3   1 bin/ksh             10r SIGSUSPEND
       6   1 sbin/pipe           10r SIGWAITINFO
       6   2 sbin/pipe           10r RECEIVE     1
       6   3 sbin/pipe           10r RECEIVE     1
       6   4 sbin/pipe           10r RECEIVE     1
       7   1 usr/sbin/ham        10r RECEIVE     1
       7   2 usr/sbin/ham        10r RECEIVE     1
       7   3 usr/sbin/ham       255r RECEIVE     3
       7   4 usr/sbin/ham       255r RECEIVE     6
       7   5 usr/sbin/ham        10r RECEIVE     1
       7   6 usr/sbin/ham        10r RECEIVE     1
       7   7 usr/sbin/ham        10r RECEIVE     1
       7   8 usr/sbin/ham        10r RECEIVE     1
      10   1 usr/sbin/ham        10r RECEIVE     1
   81939   1 sbin/io-pkt-v6-hc   21r SIGWAITINFO
   81939   2 sbin/io-pkt-v6-hc   21r RECEIVE     1
  708612   1 bin/pidin           10r REPLY       1

Thanks,

Bob
Re: UPD listener on *.*?  
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 05:38:34PM -0400, Robert Burns wrote:
> On a stripped down system running QNX 6.4.1 on a PPC platform, a 'netstat' command shows the following:
> 
> # netstat
> Active Internet connections
> Proto Recv-Q Send-Q  Local Address          Foreign Address        State
> udp        0      0  *.*                    *.*

netstat itself uses a temporary socket for its information
gathering.

Regards,

-seanb