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LISTEN(2)                 NetBSD System Calls Manual                 LISTEN(2)


NAME
listen -- listen for connections on a socket
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/socket.h> int listen(int s, int backlog);
DESCRIPTION
To accept connections, a socket is first created with socket(2), a will- ingness to accept incoming connections and a queue limit for incoming connections are specified with listen(), and then the connections are accepted with accept(2). The listen() call applies only to sockets of type SOCK_STREAM or SOCK_SEQPACKET. The backlog parameter defines the maximum length the queue of pending connections may grow to. If a connection request arrives with the queue full the client may receive an error with an indication of ECONNREFUSED, or, if the underlying protocol supports retransmission, the request may be ignored so that retries may succeed.
RETURN VALUES
A 0 return value indicates success; -1 indicates an error.
ERRORS
listen() will fail if: [EBADF] The argument s is not a valid descriptor. [ENOTSOCK] The argument s is not a socket. [EOPNOTSUPP] The socket is not of a type that supports the opera- tion listen().
SEE ALSO
accept(2), connect(2), socket(2)
HISTORY
The listen() function call appeared in 4.2BSD.
BUGS
The backlog is currently limited (silently) to 128. NetBSD 9.3 December 11, 1993 NetBSD 9.3
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