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SOCKETPAIR(2) | Linux Programmer's Manual | SOCKETPAIR(2) |
NAME¶
socketpair - create a pair of connected socketsSYNOPSIS¶
#include <sys/types.h> /* See NOTES */DESCRIPTION¶
The socketpair() call creates an unnamed pair of connected sockets in the specified domain, of the specified type, and using the optionally specified protocol. For further details of these arguments, see socket(2).RETURN VALUE¶
On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately.ERRORS¶
- EAFNOSUPPORT
- The specified address family is not supported on this machine.
- EFAULT
- The address sv does not specify a valid part of the process address space.
- EMFILE
- Too many descriptors are in use by this process.
- ENFILE
- The system limit on the total number of open files has been reached.
- EOPNOTSUPP
- The specified protocol does not support creation of socket pairs.
- EPROTONOSUPPORT
- The specified protocol is not supported on this machine.
CONFORMING TO¶
4.4BSD, POSIX.1-2001. The socketpair() function call appeared in 4.2BSD. It is generally portable to/from non-BSD systems supporting clones of the BSD socket layer (including System V variants).NOTES¶
On Linux, the only supported domain for this call is AF_UNIX (or synonymously, AF_LOCAL). (Most implementations have the same restriction.)SEE ALSO¶
pipe(2), read(2), socket(2), write(2), socket(7), unix(7)COLOPHON¶
This page is part of release 3.44 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.2008-10-11 | Linux |