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30 .\" @(#)listen.2 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93
37 .Nd listen for connections on a socket
43 .Fn listen "int s" "int backlog"
45 To accept connections, a socket
48 a willingness to accept incoming connections and
49 a queue limit for incoming connections are specified with
51 and then the connections are
56 call applies only to sockets of type
63 parameter defines the maximum length the queue of
64 pending connections may grow to.
66 request arrives with the queue full the client may
67 receive an error with an indication of
69 or, if the underlying protocol supports retransmission,
70 the request may be ignored so that retries may succeed.
72 A 0 return value indicates success; \-1 indicates an error.
80 is not a valid descriptor.
86 The socket is not of a type that supports the operation
96 function call appeared in
101 is currently limited (silently) to 128.