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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:55:15 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:55:15 -0400 |
| commit | 253e67c8b3a72b3a4757fdbc5845297628db0a4a (patch) | |
| tree | adf53b66087aa30dfbf8bf391a1dadb044c3bf4d /static/netbsd/man2/connect.2 | |
| parent | a9157ce950dfe2fc30795d43b9d79b9d1bffc48b (diff) | |
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diff --git a/static/netbsd/man2/connect.2 b/static/netbsd/man2/connect.2 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ce85c422 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/netbsd/man2/connect.2 @@ -0,0 +1,180 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: connect.2,v 1.29 2021/03/28 03:29:31 dholland Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)connect.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 +.\" +.Dd March 27, 2021 +.Dt CONNECT 2 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm connect +.Nd initiate a connection on a socket +.Sh LIBRARY +.Lb libc +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In sys/socket.h +.Ft int +.Fn connect "int s" "const struct sockaddr *name" "socklen_t namelen" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The parameter +.Fa s +is a socket. +If it is of type +.Dv SOCK_DGRAM , +this call specifies the peer with which the socket is to be associated; +this address is that to which datagrams are to be sent, +and the only address from which datagrams are to be received. +If the socket is of type +.Dv SOCK_STREAM , +this call attempts to make a connection to +another socket. +The other socket is specified by +.Fa name , +which is an address in the communications space of the socket. +.Fa namelen +indicates the amount of space pointed to by +.Fa name , +in bytes. +Each communications space interprets the +.Fa name +parameter in its own way. +Generally, stream sockets may successfully +.Fn connect +only once; datagram sockets may use +.Fn connect +multiple times to change their association. +Datagram sockets may dissolve the association +by connecting to an invalid address, such as a null address. +.Pp +If a +.Fn connect +call is interrupted by a signal, it will return with errno set to +.Er EINTR +and the connection attempt will proceed as if the socket was non-blocking. +Subsequent calls to +.Fn connect +will set errno to +.Er EALREADY . +.Sh RETURN VALUES +If the connection or binding succeeds, 0 is returned. +Otherwise a \-1 is returned, and a more specific error +code is stored in +.Va errno . +.Sh ERRORS +The +.Fn connect +call fails if: +.Bl -tag -width Er +.It Bq Er EBADF +.Fa s +is not a valid descriptor. +.It Bq Er ENOTSOCK +.Fa s +is a descriptor for a file, not a socket. +.It Bq Er EINVAL +The socket address length passed was outside the allowable range. +.It Bq Er EADDRNOTAVAIL +The specified address is not available on this machine. +.It Bq Er EAFNOSUPPORT +Addresses in the specified address family cannot be used with this socket. +.It Bq Er EISCONN +The socket is already connected. +.It Bq Er ETIMEDOUT +Connection establishment timed out without establishing a connection. +.It Bq Er ECONNREFUSED +The attempt to connect was forcefully rejected. +.It Bq Er ENETUNREACH +The network isn't reachable from this host. +.It Bq Er EADDRINUSE +The address is already in use. +.It Bq Er EFAULT +The +.Fa name +parameter specifies an area outside +the process address space. +.It Bq Er EINPROGRESS +The socket is non-blocking and the connection cannot be completed immediately. +It is possible to +.Xr select 2 +or +.Xr poll 2 +for completion by selecting or polling the socket for writing. +The success or failure of the connect operation may be determined by using +.Xr getsockopt 2 +to read the socket error status with the +.Dv SO_ERROR +option at the +.Dv SOL_SOCKET +level. +The returned socket error status is zero on success, or one of the +error codes listed here on failure. +.It Bq Er EALREADY +Either the socket is non-blocking mode or a previous call to +.Fn connect +was interrupted by a signal, and the connection attempt has not yet +been completed. +.It Bq Er EINTR +The connection attempt was interrupted by a signal. +.El +.Pp +The following errors are specific to connecting names in the +.Ux +domain. +These errors may not apply in future versions of the +.Ux +IPC domain. +.Bl -tag -width Er +.It Bq Er ENOTDIR +A component of the path prefix is not a directory. +.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG +A component of a pathname exceeded +.Brq Dv NAME_MAX +characters, or an entire path name exceeded +.Brq Dv PATH_MAX +characters. +.It Bq Er ENOENT +The named socket does not exist. +.It Bq Er EACCES +Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix, or +write access to the named socket is denied. +.It Bq Er ELOOP +Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr accept 2 , +.Xr getsockname 2 , +.Xr getsockopt 2 , +.Xr poll 2 , +.Xr select 2 , +.Xr socket 2 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Fn connect +function call appeared in +.Bx 4.2 . |
