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38 .Nd listen for connections on a socket
42 .Fn listen "int s" "int backlog"
44 To accept connections, a socket
47 a willingness to accept incoming connections and
48 a queue limit for incoming connections are specified with
50 and then the connections are
55 call applies only to sockets of type
62 parameter defines the maximum length the queue of
63 pending connections may grow to.
65 request arrives with the queue full the client may
66 receive an error with an indication of
68 or, if the underlying protocol supports retransmission,
69 the request may be ignored so that retries may succeed.
79 is not a valid descriptor.
85 The socket is not of a type that supports the operation
88 The socket is already connected.
102 system call first appeared in