[Frank Lawlor]

I have two processes with a Parent-Child relationship.
The child communicates to the parent over a socket.
If I say “run” for each separately from eclipse they work fine and the child can connect to the parent.
However, if I have the parent start the child (Runtime.exec) the child always gets “Connection refused: connect” when it tries to connect to the parent.
The parent is already initialized and has a thread doing an accept on the connection port.

I’m running on Windows XP.

Any idea why I get connection refused when the parent starts the child?

Thanks,
— Frank

[support-shalini]

Frank,
Can you check if the child process is using the same port as the parent process?

[Frank Lawlor]

Yes, the parent passes its port number to the child. I print out the port number in both the parent and child and they match.

[support-shalini]

Frank,
I don’t have visibility of your current issue.
I would recommend you to cross post to socket programming forums.

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