sctp_connectx (3)

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(C) Copyright Frank Filz IBM Corp. 2005.

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NAME

SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/sctp.h>

int sctp_connectx(int sd, struct sockaddr * addrs, int addrcnt,
                  sctp_assoc_t  * id);

DESCRIPTION

If sd is an IPv4 socket, the addresses passed must be IPv4 addresses. If sd is an IPv6 socket, the addresses passed can be either IPv4 or IPv6 addresses.

addrs is a pointer to an array of one or more socket addresses. Each address is contained in its appropriate structure(i.e. struct sockaddr_in or struct sockaddr_in6). The family of the address type must be used to distinguish the address length. The caller specifies the number of addresses in the array with addrcnt.

id is a pointer to the association id and, if provided, will be set to the identifier of the newly created association.

RETURN VALUE

ERRORS

EBADF

sd is not a valid descriptor.

ENOTSOCK

sd is a descriptor for a file, not a socket.

EFAULT

Error while copying in or out from the user address space.

EINVAL

Invalid port or address.

EACCES

The address is protected, and the user is not the super-user.

EISCONN

The socket is already connected.

ECONNREFUSED

No one listening on the remote address.

ETIMEDOUT

Timeout while attempting connection. The server may be too busy to accept new connections. Note that for IP sockets the timeout may be very long when syncookies are enabled on the server.

ENETUNREACH

Network is unreachable.

EADDRINUSE

Local address is already in use.

EINPROGRESS

The socket is non-blocking and the connection cannot be completed immediately. It is possible to select(2) or poll(2) for completion by selecting the socket for writing. After select indicates writability, use getsockopt(2) to read the SO_ERROR option at level SOL_SOCKET to determine whether connect completed successfully (SO_ERROR is zero) or unsuccessfully (SO_ERROR is one of the usual error codes listed here, explaining the reason for the failure).

EALREADY

The socket is non-blocking and a previous connection attempt has not yet been completed.

EAGAIN

No more free local ports or insufficient entries in the routing cache. For PF_INET see the net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range sysctl in ip(7) on how to increase the number of local ports.

EAFNOSUPPORT

The passed address didn't have the correct address family in its sa_family field.

EACCES, EPERM

The user tried to connect to a broadcast address without having the socket broadcast flag enabled or the connection request failed because of a local firewall rule.

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