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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California. |
| 2 | .\" All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement | |
| 3 | .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution. | |
| 4 | .\" | |
| bce6b55f | 5 | .\" @(#)socketpair.2 6.1 (Berkeley) %G% |
| 2a693a1d | 6 | .\" |
| bce6b55f | 7 | .TH SOCKETPAIR 2 "" |
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8 | .UC 5 |
| 9 | .SH NAME | |
| 10 | socketpair \- create a pair of connected sockets | |
| 11 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 12 | .nf | |
| 13 | .ft B | |
| 14 | #include <sys/types.h> | |
| 15 | #include <sys/socket.h> | |
| 16 | .PP | |
| 17 | .ft B | |
| 18 | socketpair(d, type, protocol, sv) | |
| 19 | int d, type, protocol; | |
| 20 | int sv[2]; | |
| 21 | .fi | |
| 22 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 23 | The | |
| 24 | .I socketpair | |
| 25 | call creates an unnamed pair of connected sockets in | |
| 26 | the specified domain | |
| 27 | .IR d , | |
| 28 | of the specified | |
| 29 | .IR type , | |
| 30 | and using the optionally specified | |
| 31 | .IR protocol . | |
| 32 | The descriptors used in referencing the new sockets | |
| 33 | are returned in | |
| 34 | .IR sv [0] | |
| 35 | and | |
| 36 | .IR sv [1]. | |
| 37 | The two sockets are indistinguishable. | |
| 38 | .SH DIAGNOSTICS | |
| 39 | A 0 is returned if the call succeeds, \-1 if it fails. | |
| 40 | .SH ERRORS | |
| 41 | The call succeeds unless: | |
| 42 | .TP 20 | |
| 43 | [EMFILE] | |
| 44 | Too many descriptors are in use by this process. | |
| 45 | .TP 20 | |
| 46 | [EAFNOSUPPORT] | |
| 47 | The specified address family is not supported on this machine. | |
| 48 | .TP 20 | |
| 49 | [EPROTONOSUPPORT] | |
| 50 | The specified protocol is not supported on this machine. | |
| 51 | .TP 20 | |
| 52 | [EOPNOSUPPORT] | |
| 53 | The specified protocol does not support creation of socket pairs. | |
| 54 | .TP 20 | |
| 55 | [EFAULT] | |
| 56 | The address \fIsv\fP does not specify a valid part of the | |
| 57 | process address space. | |
| 58 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
| 59 | read(2), write(2), pipe(2) | |
| 60 | .SH BUGS | |
| 61 | This call is currently implemented only for the UNIX domain. |