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!!!Bad File Descriptor
The file descriptor passed to a syscall was out of range, or was not open, or is invalid for the function requested.
-This is usually a programming bug, you forgot to call open(2), or socket(2), or something.
+This is usually a programming bug, you forgot to call open(2), or socket(2), or something or they returned an error. Check to see if the file descriptor is -1, if it is, then you should check errno for why it failed. see the man pages for open(2) or socket(2) for more information
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