osx man page for listen

Query: listen

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LISTEN(2)						      BSD System Calls Manual							 LISTEN(2)

NAME
listen -- listen for connections on a socket
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/socket.h> int listen(int socket, int backlog);
DESCRIPTION
Creation of socket-based connections requires several operations. First, a socket is created with socket(2). Next, a willingness to accept incoming connections and a queue limit for incoming connections are specified with listen(). Finally, the connections are accepted with accept(2). The listen() call applies only to sockets of type SOCK_STREAM or SOCK_SEQPACKET. The backlog parameter defines the maximum length for the queue of pending connections. If a connection request arrives with the queue full, the client may receive an error with an indication of ECONNREFUSED. Alternatively, if the underlying protocol supports retransmission, the request may be ignored so that retries may succeed.
RETURN VALUES
The listen() function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
Listen() will fail if: [EACCES] The current process has insufficient privileges. [EBADF] The argument socket is not a valid file descriptor. [EDESTADDRREQ] The socket is not bound to a local address and the protocol does not support listening on an unbound socket. [EINVAL] socket is already connected. [ENOTSOCK] The argument socket does not reference a socket. [EOPNOTSUPP] The socket is not of a type that supports the operation listen().
SEE ALSO
accept(2), connect(2), socket(2)
BUGS
The backlog is currently limited (silently) to 128.
HISTORY
The listen() function call appeared in 4.2BSD. 4.2 Berkeley Distribution December 11, 1993 4.2 Berkeley Distribution
Related Man Pages
listen(2) - redhat
listen(2) - linux
listen(2) - bsd
listen(3socket) - opensolaris
listen(2) - opendarwin
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