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28 .\" @(#)connect.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
36 .Nd initiate a connection on a socket
43 .Fn connect "int s" "const struct sockaddr *name" "socklen_t namelen"
51 this call specifies the peer with which the socket is to be associated;
52 this address is that to which datagrams are to be sent,
53 and the only address from which datagrams are to be received.
54 If the socket is of type
56 this call attempts to make a connection to
58 The other socket is specified by
60 which is an address in the communications space of the socket.
61 Each communications space interprets the
63 argument in its own way.
64 Generally, stream sockets may successfully
66 only once; datagram sockets may use
68 multiple times to change their association.
69 Datagram sockets may dissolve the association
70 by connecting to an invalid address, such as a null address.
82 is not a valid descriptor.
87 is a descriptor for a file, not a socket.
88 .It Bq Er EADDRNOTAVAIL
89 The specified address is not available on this machine.
90 .It Bq Er EAFNOSUPPORT
91 Addresses in the specified address family cannot be used with this socket.
93 The socket is already connected.
95 Connection establishment timed out without establishing a connection.
96 .It Bq Er ECONNREFUSED
97 The attempt to connect was forcefully rejected.
99 The network is not reachable from this host.
100 .It Bq Er EHOSTUNREACH
101 The remote host is not reachable from this host.
103 The address is already in use.
107 argument specifies an area outside
108 the process address space.
109 .It Bq Er EINPROGRESS
110 The socket is non-blocking
111 and the connection cannot
112 be completed immediately.
115 for completion by selecting the socket for writing.
117 The connection attempt was interrupted by the delivery of a signal.
118 The connection will be established in the background,
122 A previous connection attempt has not yet been completed.
124 An attempt is made to connect to a broadcast address (obtained through the
128 return value) through a socket that does not provide broadcast functionality.
130 An auto-assigned port number was requested but no auto-assigned ports
132 Increasing the port range specified by
135 .Va net.inet.ip.portrange.first
137 .Va net.inet.ip.portrange.last
138 may alleviate the problem.
141 The following errors are specific to connecting names in the UNIX domain.
142 These errors may not apply in future versions of the UNIX IPC domain.
145 A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
146 .It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
147 A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters,
148 or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
150 The named socket does not exist.
152 Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
154 Write access to the named socket is denied.
156 Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
169 system call appeared in