socketpair (2)
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NAME
socketpair - create a pair of connected socketsSYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h> /* See NOTES */#include <sys/socket.h>
int socketpair(int domain, int type, int protocol, int sv[2]);
DESCRIPTION
The socketpair() call creates an unnamed pair of connected sockets in the specified domain, of the specified type, and using the optionally specified protocol. For further details of these arguments, see socket(2).The descriptors used in referencing the new sockets are returned in sv[0] and sv[1]. The two sockets are indistinguishable.
RETURN VALUE
On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately.ERRORS
- 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
- The per-process limit on the number of open file descriptors has been reached.
- ENFILE
- The system-wide limit on the total number of open files has been reached.
- EOPNOTSUPP
- The specified protocol does not support creation of socket pairs.
- EPROTONOSUPPORT
- The specified protocol is not supported on this machine.
CONFORMING TO
POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, 4.4BSD. socketpair() first appeared in 4.2BSD. It is generally portable to/from non-BSD systems supporting clones of the BSD socket layer (including System V variants).NOTES
On Linux, the only supported domain for this call is AF_UNIX (or synonymously, AF_LOCAL). (Most implementations have the same restriction.)Since Linux 2.6.27, socketpair() supports the SOCK_NONBLOCK and SOCK_CLOEXEC flags in the type argument, as described in socket(2).
POSIX.1 does not require the inclusion of <sys/types.h>, and this header file is not required on Linux. However, some historical (BSD) implementations required this header file, and portable applications are probably wise to include it.