I do not have an explanation either. I'm more of a kernel guy so I realized it "should" have worked but it didn't. I suspect perhaps a thread wakening issue of

I do not have an explanation either. I'm more of a kernel guy so I realized it "should" have worked but it didn't. I suspect perhaps a thread wakening issue of some sort, as the connections were definitely 'queued' on the listen socket. I know that that same code worked perfectly with glibc!