NAME

       socketpair - create a pair of connected sockets

LIBRARY

       Standard C library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

       #include <sys/socket.h>

       int socketpair(int domain, int type, int protocol, int sv[2]);

DESCRIPTION

       The  socketpair()  call  creates  an  unnamed  pair  of connected sockets in the specified
       domain, of the specified type, and using the optionally specified protocol.   For  further
       details of these arguments, see socket(2).

       The  file descriptors used in referencing the new sockets are returned in sv[0] and sv[1].
       The two sockets are indistinguishable.

RETURN VALUE

       On success, zero is returned.  On error, -1 is returned, errno  is  set  to  indicate  the
       error, and sv is left unchanged

       On  Linux  (and other systems), socketpair() does not modify sv on failure.  A requirement
       standardizing this behavior was added in POSIX.1-2008 TC2.

ERRORS

       EAFNOSUPPORT
              The specified address family is not supported on this machine.

       EFAULT The address sv does not specify a valid part of the process address space.

       EMFILE The per-process limit on the number of open file descriptors has been reached.

       ENFILE The system-wide limit on the total number of open files has been reached.

       EOPNOTSUPP
              The specified protocol does not support creation of socket pairs.

       EPROTONOSUPPORT
              The specified protocol is not supported on this machine.

VERSIONS

       On Linux, the only supported domains for this call are AF_UNIX (or synonymously, AF_LOCAL)
       and AF_TIPC (since Linux 4.12).

STANDARDS

       POSIX.1-2008.

HISTORY

       POSIX.1-2001, 4.4BSD.

       socketpair()  first  appeared in 4.2BSD.  It is generally portable to/from non-BSD systems
       supporting clones of the BSD socket layer (including System V variants).

       Since Linux 2.6.27, socketpair() supports the SOCK_NONBLOCK and SOCK_CLOEXEC flags in  the
       type argument, as described in socket(2).

SEE ALSO

       pipe(2), read(2), socket(2), write(2), socket(7), unix(7)