| 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 | .\" |
| 5 | .\" @(#)udp.4 6.2 (Berkeley) %G% |
| 6 | .\" |
| 7 | .TH UDP 4P "" |
| 8 | .UC 5 |
| 9 | .SH NAME |
| 10 | udp \- Internet User Datagram Protocol |
| 11 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
| 12 | .B #include <sys/socket.h> |
| 13 | .br |
| 14 | .B #include <netinet/in.h> |
| 15 | .PP |
| 16 | .B s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0); |
| 17 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 18 | UDP is a simple, unreliable datagram protocol which is used |
| 19 | to support the SOCK_DGRAM abstraction for the Internet |
| 20 | protocol family. UDP sockets are connectionless, and are |
| 21 | normally used with the |
| 22 | .I sendto |
| 23 | and |
| 24 | .IR recvfrom |
| 25 | calls, though the |
| 26 | .IR connect (2) |
| 27 | call may also be used to fix the destination for future |
| 28 | packets (in which case the |
| 29 | .IR recv (2) |
| 30 | or |
| 31 | .IR read (2) |
| 32 | and |
| 33 | .IR send (2) |
| 34 | or |
| 35 | .IR write(2) |
| 36 | system calls may be used). |
| 37 | .PP |
| 38 | UDP address formats are identical to those used by |
| 39 | TCP. In particular UDP provides a port identifier in addition |
| 40 | to the normal Internet address format. Note that the UDP port |
| 41 | space is separate from the TCP port space (i.e. a UDP port |
| 42 | may not be \*(lqconnected\*(rq to a TCP port). In addition broadcast |
| 43 | packets may be sent (assuming the underlying network supports |
| 44 | this) by using a reserved \*(lqbroadcast address\*(rq; this address |
| 45 | is network interface dependent. |
| 46 | .PP |
| 47 | Options at the IP transport level may be used with UDP; see |
| 48 | .IR ip (4P). |
| 49 | .SH DIAGNOSTICS |
| 50 | A socket operation may fail with one of the following errors returned: |
| 51 | .TP 15 |
| 52 | [EISCONN] |
| 53 | when trying to establish a connection on a socket which |
| 54 | already has one, or when trying to send a datagram with the destination |
| 55 | address specified and the socket is already connected; |
| 56 | .TP 15 |
| 57 | [ENOTCONN] |
| 58 | when trying to send a datagram, but |
| 59 | no destination address is specified, and the socket hasn't been |
| 60 | connected; |
| 61 | .TP 15 |
| 62 | [ENOBUFS] |
| 63 | when the system runs out of memory for |
| 64 | an internal data structure; |
| 65 | .TP 15 |
| 66 | [EADDRINUSE] |
| 67 | when an attempt |
| 68 | is made to create a socket with a port which has already been |
| 69 | allocated; |
| 70 | .TP 15 |
| 71 | [EADDRNOTAVAIL] |
| 72 | when an attempt is made to create a |
| 73 | socket with a network address for which no network interface |
| 74 | exists. |
| 75 | .SH SEE ALSO |
| 76 | getsockopt(2), recv(2), send(2), socket(2), intro(4N), inet(4F), ip(4P) |