debian man page for sctp_generic_recvmsg

Query: sctp_generic_recvmsg

OS: debian

Section: 2

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SCTP_GENERIC_RECVMSG(2) 				      BSD System Calls Manual					   SCTP_GENERIC_RECVMSG(2)

NAME
sctp_generic_recvmsg -- receive data from a peer
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/socket.h> #include <netinet/sctp.h> int sctp_generic_recvmsg(int s, struct iovec *iov, int iovlen, struct sockaddr *from, socklen_t *fromlen, struct sctp_sndrcvinfo *sinfo, int *msgflags);
DESCRIPTION
sctp_generic_recvmsg() is the true system call used by the sctp_recvmsg(3) function call. This call is more efficient since it is a true system call but it is specific to FreeBSD and can be expected not to be present on any other operating system. For detailed usage please see the sctp_recvmsg(3) function call.
RETURN VALUES
The call returns the number of bytes read on success and -1 upon failure.
ERRORS
[EBADF] The argument s is not a valid descriptor. [ENOTSOCK] The argument s is not a socket.
SEE ALSO
sctp_recvmsg(3), sctp(4)
BSD
October 30, 2007 BSD
Related Man Pages
sctp_generic_sendmsg(2) - debian
sctp_recvmsg(3) - debian
sctp_recvmsg(3socket) - sunos
sctp_getpaddrs(3) - freebsd
sctp_generic_sendmsg(2) - freebsd
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