connect(2) BSD System Calls Manual connect(2)
NAME
connect -- initiate a connection on a socket
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
int
connect(int socket, const struct sockaddr *address,
socklen_t address_len);
DESCRIPTION
The parameter socket is a socket. If it is of type 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
SOCK_STREAM, this call attempts to make a connection to another socket.
The other socket is specified by address, which is an address in the com-
munications space of the socket.
Each communications space interprets the address parameter in its own
way. Generally, stream sockets may successfully connect() only once;
datagram sockets may use connect() multiple times to change their associ-
ation. Datagram sockets may dissolve the association by connecting to an
invalid address, such as a null address or an address with the address
family set to AF_UNSPEC (the error EAFNOSUPPORT will be harmlessly
returned).
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned. Otherwise, a value
of -1 is returned and the global integer variable errno is set to indi-
cate the error.
ERRORS
The connect() system call will fail if:
[EACCES] The destination address is a broadcast address and the
socket option SO_BROADCAST is not set.
[EADDRINUSE] The address is already in use.
[EADDRNOTAVAIL] The specified address is not available on this
machine.
[EAFNOSUPPORT] Addresses in the specified address family cannot be
used with this socket.
[EALREADY] The socket is non-blocking and a previous connection
attempt has not yet been completed.
[EBADF] socket is not a valid descriptor.
[ECONNREFUSED] The attempt to connect was ignored (because the target
is not listening for connections) or explicitly
rejected.
[EFAULT] The address parameter specifies an area outside the
process address space.
[EHOSTUNREACH] The target host cannot be reached (e.g., down, discon-
nected).
[EINPROGRESS] The socket is non-blocking and the connection cannot
be completed immediately. It is possible to select(2)
for completion by selecting the socket for writing.
[EINTR] Its execution was interrupted by a signal.
[EINVAL] An invalid argument was detected (e.g., address_len is
not valid for the address family, the specified
address family is invalid).
[EISCONN] The socket is already connected.
[ENETDOWN] The local network interface is not functioning.
[ENETUNREACH] The network isn't reachable from this host.
[ENOBUFS] The system call was unable to allocate a needed memory
buffer.
[ENOTSOCK] socket is not a file descriptor for a socket.
[EOPNOTSUPP] Because socket is listening, no connection is allowed.
[EPROTOTYPE] address has a different type than the socket that is
bound to the specified peer address.
[ETIMEDOUT] Connection establishment timed out without establish-
ing a connection.
[ECONNRESET] Remote host reset the connection request.
The following errors are specific to connecting names in the UNIX domain.
These errors may not apply in future versions of the UNIX IPC domain.
[EACCES] Search permission is denied for a component of the
path prefix.
[EACCES] Write access to the named socket is denied.
[EIO] An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to
the file system.
[ELOOP] Too many symbolic links were encountered in translat-
ing the pathname. This is taken to be indicative of a
looping symbolic link.
[ENAMETOOLONG] A component of a pathname exceeded {NAME_MAX} charac-
ters, or an entire path name exceeded {PATH_MAX} char-
acters.
[ENOENT] The named socket does not exist.
[ENOTDIR] A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
LEGACY SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
The include file <sys/types.h> is necessary.
SEE ALSO
accept(2), getsockname(2), select(2), socket(2), compat(5)
HISTORY
The connect() function call appeared in 4.2BSD.
4.2 Berkeley Distribution June 4, 1993 4.2 Berkeley Distribution
Mac OS X 10.9.1 - Generated Sun Jan 5 20:32:04 CST 2014