c - What can cause a “Resource temporarily unavailable” on sock send() command

Question

What can cause a Resource temporarily unavailable error on a socket send() command? The socket is setup as AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM. It works most of the time, but occasionally gets this error. The receiving end of the socket appears to be working properly.

I know this isn't very detailed, but I'm just looking for general ideas. Thanks!

Answer 1

"Resource temporarily unavailable" is the error message corresponding to EAGAIN, which means that the operation would have blocked but nonblocking operation was requested. For send(), that could be due to any of:

• explicitly marking the file descriptor as nonblocking with fcntl(); or
• passing the MSG_DONTWAIT flag to send(); or
• setting a send timeout with the SO_SNDTIMEO socket option.