socketpair(3socket) [sunos man page]
socketpair(3SOCKET) Sockets Library Functions socketpair(3SOCKET) NAME
socketpair - create a pair of connected sockets SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag ... ] file ... -lsocket -lnsl [ library ... ] #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/socket.h> int socketpair(int domain, int type, int protocol, int sv[2]); DESCRIPTION
The socketpair() library call creates an unnamed pair of connected sockets in the specified address family domain, of the specified type, that uses the optionally specified protocol. The descriptors that are used in referencing the new sockets are returned in sv[0] and sv[1]. The two sockets are indistinguishable. RETURN VALUES
socketpair() returns -1 on failure and 0 on success. ERRORS
The call succeeds unless: EAFNOSUPPORT The specified address family is not supported on this machine. EMFILE Too many descriptors are in use by this process. ENOMEM There was insufficient user memory for the operation to complete. ENOSR There were insufficient STREAMS resources for the operation to complete. EOPNOTSUPP The specified protocol does not support creation of socket pairs. EPROTONOSUPPORT The specified protocol is not supported on this machine. EACCES The process does not have appropriate privileges. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |Safe | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
pipe(2), read(2), write(2), socket.h(3HEAD), attributes(5) NOTES
This call is currently implemented only for the AF_UNIX address family. SunOS 5.10 10 Jan 2001 socketpair(3SOCKET)
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SOCKETPAIR(2) BSD System Calls Manual SOCKETPAIR(2) NAME
socketpair -- create a pair of connected sockets SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/socket.h> int socketpair(int domain, int type, int protocol, int socket_vector[2]); DESCRIPTION
The socketpair() call creates an unnamed pair of connected sockets in the specified domain domain, of the specified type, and using the optionally specified protocol. The descriptors used in referencing the new sockets are returned in socket_vector[0] and socket_vector[1]. The two sockets are indistinguishable. RETURN VALUES
The socketpair() function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indi- cate the error. ERRORS
The call succeeds unless: [EAFNOSUPPORT] The specified address family is not supported on this machine. [EFAULT] The address socket_vector does not specify a valid part of the process address space. [EMFILE] No more file descriptors are available for this process. [ENFILE] No more file descriptors are available for the system. [ENOBUFS] Insufficient resources were available in the system to perform the operation. [ENOMEM] Insufficient memory was available to fulfill the request. [EOPNOTSUPP] The specified protocol does not support creation of socket pairs. [EPROTONOSUPPORT] The specified protocol is not supported on this machine. [EPROTOTYPE] The socket type is not supported by the protocol. [EACCES] The process does not have appropriate privileges to create a socket of the specified type and/or protocol. LEGACY SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/socket.h> The include file <sys/types.h> is necessary. SEE ALSO
socket(2), read(2), write(2), compat(5) BUGS
This call is currently implemented only for the UNIX domain. HISTORY
The socketpair() function call appeared in 4.2BSD. 4.2 Berkeley Distribution June 4, 1993 4.2 Berkeley Distribution