SOCKETPAIR(2) BSD System Calls Manual SOCKETPAIR(2)NAME
socketpair — create a pair of connected sockets
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
int
socketpair(int d, int type, int protocol, int *sv);
DESCRIPTION
The socketpair() system call creates an unnamed pair of connected sockets
in the specified domain d, of the specified type, and using the option‐
ally specified protocol. The descriptors used in referencing the new
sockets are returned in sv[0] and sv[1]. The two sockets are indistin‐
guishable.
RETURN VALUES
The socketpair() function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise
the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate
the error.
ERRORS
The call succeeds unless:
[EMFILE] Too many descriptors are in use by this process.
[EAFNOSUPPORT] The specified address family is not supported on this
machine.
[EPROTONOSUPPORT] The specified protocol is not supported on this
machine.
[EOPNOTSUPP] The specified protocol does not support creation of
socket pairs.
[EFAULT] The address sv does not specify a valid part of the
process address space.
SEE ALSOpipe(2), read(2), write(2)HISTORY
The socketpair() system call appeared in 4.2BSD.
BUGS
This call is currently implemented only for the UNIX domain.
BSD June 4, 1993 BSD