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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 22.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 23.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 24.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 25.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 26.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 27.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 28.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 29.\" 30.\" @(#)connect.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 31.\" 32.Dd May 18, 2004 33.Dt CONNECT 2 34.Os 35.Sh NAME 36.Nm connect 37.Nd initiate a connection on a socket 38.Sh LIBRARY 39.Lb libc 40.Sh SYNOPSIS 41.In sys/socket.h 42.Ft int 43.Fn connect "int s" "const struct sockaddr *name" "socklen_t namelen" 44.Sh DESCRIPTION 45The parameter 46.Fa s 47is a socket. 48If it is of type 49.Dv SOCK_DGRAM , 50this call specifies the peer with which the socket is to be associated; 51this address is that to which datagrams are to be sent, 52and the only address from which datagrams are to be received. 53If the socket is of type 54.Dv SOCK_STREAM , 55this call attempts to make a connection to 56another socket. 57The other socket is specified by 58.Fa name , 59which is an address in the communications space of the socket. 60.Fa namelen 61indicates the amount of space pointed to by 62.Fa name , 63in bytes. 64Each communications space interprets the 65.Fa name 66parameter in its own way. 67Generally, stream sockets may successfully 68.Fn connect 69only once; datagram sockets may use 70.Fn connect 71multiple times to change their association. 72Datagram sockets may dissolve the association 73by connecting to an invalid address, such as a null address. 74.Pp 75If a 76.Fn connect 77call is interrupted by a signal, it will return with errno set to 78.Er EINTR 79and the connection attempt will proceed as if the socket was non-blocking. 80Subsequent calls to 81.Fn connect 82will set errno to 83.Er EALREADY . 84.Sh RETURN VALUES 85If the connection or binding succeeds, 0 is returned. 86Otherwise a \-1 is returned, and a more specific error 87code is stored in 88.Va errno . 89.Sh ERRORS 90The 91.Fn connect 92call fails if: 93.Bl -tag -width Er 94.It Bq Er EBADF 95.Fa s 96is not a valid descriptor. 97.It Bq Er ENOTSOCK 98.Fa s 99is a descriptor for a file, not a socket. 100.It Bq Er EADDRNOTAVAIL 101The specified address is not available on this machine. 102.It Bq Er EAFNOSUPPORT 103Addresses in the specified address family cannot be used with this socket. 104.It Bq Er EISCONN 105The socket is already connected. 106.It Bq Er ETIMEDOUT 107Connection establishment timed out without establishing a connection. 108.It Bq Er ECONNREFUSED 109The attempt to connect was forcefully rejected. 110.It Bq Er ENETUNREACH 111The network isn't reachable from this host. 112.It Bq Er EADDRINUSE 113The address is already in use. 114.It Bq Er EFAULT 115The 116.Fa name 117parameter specifies an area outside 118the process address space. 119.It Bq Er EINPROGRESS 120The socket is non-blocking and the connection cannot be completed immediately. 121It is possible to 122.Xr select 2 123or 124.Xr poll 2 125for completion by selecting or polling the socket for writing. 126The success or failure of the connect operation may be determined by using 127.Xr getsockopt 2 128to read the socket error status with the 129.Dv SO_ERROR 130option at the 131.Dv SOL_SOCKET 132level. 133The returned socket error status is zero on success, or one of the 134error codes listed here on failure. 135.It Bq Er EALREADY 136Either the socket is non-blocking mode or a previous call to 137.Fn connect 138was interrupted by a signal, and the connection attempt has not yet 139been completed. 140.It Bq Er EINTR 141The connection attempt was interrupted by a signal. 142.El 143.Pp 144The following errors are specific to connecting names in the 145.Ux 146domain. 147These errors may not apply in future versions of the 148.Ux 149IPC domain. 150.Bl -tag -width Er 151.It Bq Er ENOTDIR 152A component of the path prefix is not a directory. 153.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG 154A component of a pathname exceeded 155.Brq Dv NAME_MAX 156characters, or an entire path name exceeded 157.Brq Dv PATH_MAX 158characters. 159.It Bq Er ENOENT 160The named socket does not exist. 161.It Bq Er EACCES 162Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix, or 163write access to the named socket is denied. 164.It Bq Er ELOOP 165Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname. 166.El 167.Sh SEE ALSO 168.Xr accept 2 , 169.Xr getsockname 2 , 170.Xr getsockopt 2 , 171.Xr poll 2 , 172.Xr select 2 , 173.Xr socket 2 174.Sh HISTORY 175The 176.Fn connect 177function call appeared in 178.Bx 4.2 . 179