SOCKETPAIR(2)						      BSD System Calls Manual						     SOCKETPAIR(2)

NAME

     socketpair -- create a pair of connected sockets

LIBRARY

     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

     #include <sys/socket.h>

     int
     socketpair(int d, int type, int protocol, int *sv);

DESCRIPTION

     The socketpair() call creates an unnamed pair of connected sockets in the specified domain d, of the specified type, and using the optionally
     specified protocol.  The descriptors used in referencing the new sockets are returned in sv[0] and sv[1].	The two sockets are indistinguish-
     able.

     The type and protocol argument values are described in socket(2).

RETURN VALUES

     A 0 is returned if the call succeeds, -1 if it fails.

ERRORS

     The call succeeds unless:

     [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 file table is full.

     [EOPNOTSUPP]	The specified protocol does not support creation of socket pairs.

     [EPROTONOSUPPORT]	The specified protocol is not supported on this machine.

SEE ALSO

     pipe(2), read(2), socket(2), write(2)

HISTORY

     The socketpair() function call appeared in 4.2BSD.

BUGS

     This call is currently implemented only for the PF_LOCAL domain.

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