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SOCKETPAIR(2) Linux Programmer's Manual SOCKETPAIR(2)
socketpair - create a pair of connected sockets
#include <sys/types.h> /* See NOTES */
#include <sys/socket.h>
int socketpair(int domain, int type, int protocol, int sv[2]);
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 file descriptors used in referencing the new sockets are returned
in sv[0] and sv[1]. The two sockets are indistinguishable.
On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is
set appropriately.
On Linux (and other systems), socketpair() does not modify sv on
failure. A requirement standardizing this behavior was added in
POSIX.1-2016.
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.
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).
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.
pipe(2), read(2), socket(2), write(2), socket(7), unix(7)
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Linux 2016-03-15 SOCKETPAIR(2)
Pages that refer to this page: pipe(2), socket(2), socketcall(2), syscalls(2), fifo(7), pipe(7), signal-safety(7), socket(7), unix(7)