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5.1 KiB
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182 lines
5.1 KiB
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.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1990, 1991, 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\" @(#)accept.2 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd December 11, 1993
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.Dt ACCEPT 2
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm accept
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.Nd accept a connection on a socket
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libc
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In sys/types.h
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.In sys/socket.h
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.Ft int
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.Fn accept "int s" "struct sockaddr * restrict addr" "socklen_t * restrict addrlen"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The argument
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.Fa s
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is a socket that has been created with
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.Xr socket 2 ,
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bound to an address with
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.Xr bind 2 ,
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and is listening for connections after a
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.Xr listen 2 .
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The
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.Fn accept
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system call extracts the first connection request on the
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queue of pending connections, creates a new socket,
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and allocates a new file descriptor for the socket which
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inherits the state of the
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.Dv O_NONBLOCK
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property from the original socket
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.Fa s .
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.Pp
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If no pending connections are
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present on the queue, and the original socket
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is not marked as non-blocking,
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.Fn accept
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blocks the caller until a connection is present.
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If the original socket
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is marked non-blocking and no pending
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connections are present on the queue,
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.Fn accept
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returns an error as described below.
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The accepted socket
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may not be used
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to accept more connections.
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The original socket
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.Fa s
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remains open.
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.Pp
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The argument
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.Fa addr
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is a result argument that is filled-in with
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the address of the connecting entity,
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as known to the communications layer.
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The exact format of the
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.Fa addr
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argument is determined by the domain in which the communication
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is occurring.
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A null pointer may be specified for
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.Fa addr
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if the address information is not desired;
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in this case,
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.Fa addrlen
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is not used and should also be null.
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Otherwise, the
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.Fa addrlen
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argument
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is a value-result argument; it should initially contain the
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amount of space pointed to by
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.Fa addr ;
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on return it will contain the actual length (in bytes) of the
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address returned.
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This call
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is used with connection-based socket types, currently with
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.Dv SOCK_STREAM .
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.Pp
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It is possible to
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.Xr select 2
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a socket for the purposes of doing an
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.Fn accept
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by selecting it for read.
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.Pp
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For certain protocols which require an explicit confirmation,
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such as
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.Tn ISO
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or
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.Tn DATAKIT ,
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.Fn accept
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can be thought of
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as merely dequeueing the next connection
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request and not implying confirmation.
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Confirmation can be implied by a normal read or write on the new
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file descriptor, and rejection can be implied by closing the
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new socket.
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.Pp
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For some applications, performance may be enhanced by using an
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.Xr accept_filter 9
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to pre-process incoming connections.
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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The call returns \-1 on error.
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If it succeeds, it returns a non-negative
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integer that is a descriptor for the accepted socket.
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.Sh ERRORS
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The
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.Fn accept
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system call will fail if:
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.Bl -tag -width Er
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.It Bq Er EBADF
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The descriptor is invalid.
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.It Bq Er EINTR
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The
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.Fn accept
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operation was interrupted.
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.It Bq Er EMFILE
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The per-process descriptor table is full.
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.It Bq Er ENFILE
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The system file table is full.
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.It Bq Er ENOTSOCK
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The descriptor references a file, not a socket.
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.It Bq Er EINVAL
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.Xr listen 2
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has not been called on the socket descriptor.
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.It Bq Er EINVAL
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The
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.Fa addrlen
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argument is negative.
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.It Bq Er EFAULT
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The
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.Fa addr
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argument is not in a writable part of the
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user address space.
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.It Bq Er EWOULDBLOCK
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The socket is marked non-blocking and no connections
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are present to be accepted.
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.It Bq Er ECONNABORTED
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A connection arrived, but it was closed while waiting
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on the listen queue.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr bind 2 ,
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.Xr connect 2 ,
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.Xr getpeername 2 ,
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.Xr listen 2 ,
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.Xr select 2 ,
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.Xr socket 2 ,
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.Xr accept_filter 9
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Fn accept
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system call appeared in
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.Bx 4.2 .
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