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SOCKETPAIR(2) Linux Programmer's 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 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 file 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, errno is set to indicate the error, and sv is left unchanged
On Linux (and other systems), socketpair() does not modify sv on failure. A requirement standardizing this behavior was added in POSIX.1-2008 TC2.
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 domains for this call are AF_UNIX (or synonymously, AF_LOCAL) and AF_TIPC (since Linux 4.12).
Since Linux 2.6.27, socketpair() supports the SOCK_NONBLOCK and SOCK_CLOEXEC flags in the type argument, as described in socket(2).
SEE ALSO
pipe(2), read(2), socket(2), write(2), socket(7), unix(7)
Linux 2021-03-22 SOCKETPAIR(2)