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NAME
xs_getsockopt - get Crossroads socket option
SYNOPSIS
int xs_getsockopt (void *socket, int option_name, void *option_value, size_t *option_len);
DESCRIPTION
The xs_getsockopt() function shall retrieve the value for the option specified by the option_name
argument for the Crossroads socket pointed to by the socket argument, and store it in the buffer pointed
to by the option_value argument. The option_len argument is the size in bytes of the buffer pointed to by
option_value; upon successful completion xs_getsockopt() shall modify the option_len argument to indicate
the actual size of the option value stored in the buffer.
The following options can be retrieved with the xs_getsockopt() function:
XS_TYPE: Retrieve socket type
The XS_TYPE option shall retrieve the socket type for the specified socket. The socket type is specified
at socket creation time and cannot be modified afterwards.
Option value type int
Option value unit N/A
Default value N/A
Applicable socket types all
XS_RCVMORE: More message data parts to follow
The XS_RCVMORE option shall return True (1) if the message part last received from the socket was a data
part with more parts to follow. If there are no data parts to follow, this option shall return False (0).
Refer to xs_send(3) and xs_recv(3) for a detailed description of multi-part messages.
Option value type int
Option value unit boolean
Default value N/A
Applicable socket types all
XS_SNDHWM: Retrieves high water mark for outbound messages
The XS_SNDHWM option shall return the high water mark for outbound messages on the specified socket. The
high water mark is a hard limit on the maximum number of outstanding messages the library shall queue in
memory for any single peer that the specified socket is communicating with.
If this limit has been reached the socket shall enter an exceptional state and depending on the socket
type, the library shall take appropriate action such as blocking or dropping sent messages. Refer to the
individual socket descriptions in xs_socket(3) for details on the exact action taken for each socket
type.
Option value type int
Option value unit messages
Default value 1000
Applicable socket types all
XS_RCVHWM: Retrieve high water mark for inbound messages
The XS_RCVHWM option shall return the high water mark for inbound messages on the specified socket. The
high water mark is a hard limit on the maximum number of outstanding messages the library shall queue in
memory for any single peer that the specified socket is communicating with.
If this limit has been reached the socket shall enter an exceptional state and depending on the socket
type, the library shall take appropriate action such as blocking or dropping sent messages. Refer to the
individual socket descriptions in xs_socket(3) for details on the exact action taken for each socket
type.
Option value type int
Option value unit messages
Default value 1000
Applicable socket types all
XS_AFFINITY: Retrieve I/O thread affinity
The XS_AFFINITY option shall retrieve the I/O thread affinity for newly created connections on the
specified socket.
Affinity determines which threads from the Crossroads I/O thread pool associated with the socket’s
context shall handle newly created connections. A value of zero specifies no affinity, meaning that work
shall be distributed fairly among all I/O threads in the thread pool. For non-zero values, the lowest bit
corresponds to thread 1, second lowest bit to thread 2 and so on. For example, a value of 3 specifies
that subsequent connections on socket shall be handled exclusively by I/O threads 1 and 2.
See also xs_init(3) for details on allocating the number of I/O threads for a specific context.
Option value type uint64_t
Option value unit N/A (bitmap)
Default value 0
Applicable socket types N/A
XS_IDENTITY: Set socket identity
The XS_IDENTITY option shall retrieve the identity of the specified socket. Socket identity is used only
by request/reply pattern. Namely, it can be used in tandem with a XS_XREP socket to route messages to the
peer with specific identity.
Identity should be at least one byte and at most 255 bytes long. Identities starting with binary zero are
reserved for use by Crossroads infrastructure.
Option value type binary data
Option value unit N/A
Default value NULL
Applicable socket types all
XS_RATE: Retrieve multicast data rate
The XS_RATE option shall retrieve the maximum send or receive data rate for multicast transports using
the specified socket.
Option value type int
Option value unit kilobits per second
Default value 100
Applicable socket types all, when using multicast transports
XS_RECOVERY_IVL: Get multicast recovery interval
The XS_RECOVERY_IVL option shall retrieve the recovery interval for multicast transports using the
specified socket. The recovery interval determines the maximum time in milliseconds that a receiver can
be absent from a multicast group before unrecoverable data loss will occur.
Option value type int
Option value unit milliseconds
Default value 10000
Applicable socket types all, when using multicast transports
XS_SNDBUF: Retrieve kernel transmit buffer size
The XS_SNDBUF option shall retrieve the underlying kernel transmit buffer size for the specified socket.
A value of zero means that the OS default is in effect. For details refer to your operating system
documentation for the SO_SNDBUF socket option.
Option value type int
Option value unit bytes
Default value 0
Applicable socket types all
XS_RCVBUF: Retrieve kernel receive buffer size
The XS_RCVBUF option shall retrieve the underlying kernel receive buffer size for the specified socket. A
value of zero means that the OS default is in effect. For details refer to your operating system
documentation for the SO_RCVBUF socket option.
Option value type int
Option value unit bytes
Default value 0
Applicable socket types all
XS_LINGER: Retrieve linger period for socket shutdown
The XS_LINGER option shall retrieve the linger period for the specified socket. The linger period
determines how long pending messages which have yet to be sent to a peer shall linger in memory after a
socket is closed with xs_close(3), and further affects the termination of the socket’s context with
xs_term(3). The following outlines the different behaviours:
• The default value of -1 specifies an infinite linger period. Pending messages shall not be discarded
after a call to xs_close(); attempting to terminate the socket’s context with xs_term() shall block
until all pending messages have been sent to a peer.
• The value of 0 specifies no linger period. Pending messages shall be discarded immediately when the
socket is closed with xs_close().
• Positive values specify an upper bound for the linger period in milliseconds. Pending messages shall
not be discarded after a call to xs_close(); attempting to terminate the socket’s context with
xs_term() shall block until either all pending messages have been sent to a peer, or the linger
period expires, after which any pending messages shall be discarded.
Option value type int
Option value unit milliseconds
Default value -1 (infinite)
Applicable socket types all
XS_RECONNECT_IVL: Retrieve reconnection interval
The XS_RECONNECT_IVL option shall retrieve the initial reconnection interval for the specified socket.
The reconnection interval is the period the library shall wait between attempts to reconnect disconnected
peers when using connection-oriented transports.
Note
The reconnection interval may be randomized by the library to prevent reconnection storms in
topologies with a large number of peers per socket.
Option value type int
Option value unit milliseconds
Default value 100
Applicable socket types all, only for connection-oriented
transports
XS_RECONNECT_IVL_MAX: Retrieve maximum reconnection interval
The XS_RECONNECT_IVL_MAX option shall retrieve the maximum reconnection interval for the specified
socket. This is the maximum period the library shall wait between attempts to reconnect. On each
reconnect attempt, the previous interval shall be doubled untill XS_RECONNECT_IVL_MAX is reached. This
allows for exponential backoff strategy. Default value means no exponential backoff is performed and
reconnect interval calculations are only based on XS_RECONNECT_IVL.
Note
Values less than XS_RECONNECT_IVL will be ignored.
Option value type int
Option value unit milliseconds
Default value 0 (only use XS_RECONNECT_IVL)
Applicable socket types all, only for connection-oriented
transport
XS_BACKLOG: Retrieve maximum length of the queue of outstanding connections
The XS_BACKLOG option shall retrieve the maximum length of the queue of outstanding peer connections for
the specified socket; this only applies to connection-oriented transports. For details refer to your
operating system documentation for the listen function.
Option value type int
Option value unit connections
Default value 100
Applicable socket types all, only for connection-oriented
transports
XS_MAXMSGSIZE: Maximum acceptable inbound message size
The option shall retrieve limit for the inbound messages. If a peer sends a message larger than
XS_MAXMSGSIZE it is disconnected.
Option value type uint64_t
Option value unit bytes
Default value 2^64-1
Applicable socket types all
XS_MULTICAST_HOPS: Maximum network hops for multicast packets
The option shall retrieve time-to-live used for outbound multicast packets. The default of 1 means that
the multicast packets don’t leave the local network.
Option value type int
Option value unit network hops
Default value 1
Applicable socket types all, when using multicast transports
XS_RCVTIMEO: Maximum time before a socket operation returns with EAGAIN
Retrieve the timeout for recv operation on the socket. If the value is 0, xs_recv(3) will return
immediately, with a EAGAIN error if there is no message to receive. If the value is -1, it will block
until a message is available. For all other values, it will wait for a message for that amount of time
before returning with an EAGAIN error.
Option value type int
Option value unit milliseconds
Default value -1 (infinite)
Applicable socket types all
XS_SNDTIMEO: Maximum time before a socket operation returns with EAGAIN
Retrieve the timeout for send operation on the socket. If the value is 0, xs_send(3) will return
immediately, with a EAGAIN error if the message cannot be sent. If the value is -1, it will block until
the message is sent. For all other values, it will try to send the message for that amount of time before
returning with an EAGAIN error.
Option value type int
Option value unit milliseconds
Default value -1 (infinite)
Applicable socket types all
XS_IPV4ONLY: Retrieve IPv4-only socket override status
Retrieve the underlying native socket type. A value of 1 will use IPv4 sockets, while the value of 0 will
use IPv6 sockets. An IPv6 socket lets applications connect to and accept connections from both IPv4 and
IPv6 hosts.
Option value type int
Option value unit boolean
Default value 1 (true)
Applicable socket types all, when using TCP transport.
XS_FD: Retrieve file descriptor associated with the socket
The XS_FD option shall retrieve the file descriptor associated with the specified socket. The returned
file descriptor can be used to integrate the socket into an existing event loop; the library shall signal
any pending events on the socket in an edge-triggered fashion by making the file descriptor become ready
for reading.
Note
The ability to read from the returned file descriptor does not necessarily indicate that messages are
available to be read from, or can be written to, the underlying socket; applications must retrieve
the actual event state with a subsequent retrieval of the XS_EVENTS option.
Note
The returned file descriptor is also used internally by the xs_send and xs_recv functions. As the
descriptor is edge triggered, applications must update the state of XS_EVENTS after each invocation
of xs_send or xs_recv.To be more explicit: after calling xs_send the socket may become readable (and
vice versa) without triggering a read event on the file descriptor.
Caution
The returned file descriptor is intended for use with a poll or similar system call only.
Applications must never attempt to read or write data to it directly, neither should they try to
close it.
Option value type int on POSIX systems, SOCKET on
Windows
Option value unit N/A
Default value N/A
Applicable socket types all
XS_EVENTS: Retrieve socket event state
The XS_EVENTS option shall retrieve the event state for the specified socket. The returned value is a bit
mask constructed by OR’ing a combination of the following event flags:
XS_POLLIN
Indicates that at least one message may be received from the specified socket without blocking.
XS_POLLOUT
Indicates that at least one message may be sent to the specified socket without blocking.
The combination of a file descriptor returned by the XS_FD option being ready for reading but no actual
events returned by a subsequent retrieval of the XS_EVENTS option is valid; applications should simply
ignore this case and restart their polling operation/event loop.
Option value type int
Option value unit N/A (flags)
Default value N/A
Applicable socket types all
XS_KEEPALIVE: Enable transport keepalives
When set to 1, this option enables use of protocol keepalives on the socket, if supported by the
underlying transport protocol.
Option value type int
Option value unit boolean
Default value 0 (false)
Applicable socket types all, when using TCP transport.
XS_SURVEY_TIMEOUT: Retrieve deadline for the survey
Specifies how long to wait for responses to the survey. After the interval expires, any firther calls to
xs_recv() will return EAGAIN error. All the responses received later on will be silently discarded. Value
of -1 means infinite.
Option value type int
Option value unit milliseconds
Default value -1 (infinite)
Applicable socket types XS_SURVEYOR
RETURN VALUE
The xs_getsockopt() function shall return zero if successful. Otherwise it shall return -1 and set errno
to one of the values defined below.
ERRORS
EINVAL
The requested option option_name is unknown, or the requested option_len or option_value is invalid,
or the size of the buffer pointed to by option_value, as specified by option_len, is insufficient for
storing the option value.
ETERM
The context associated with the specified socket was terminated.
ENOTSOCK
The provided socket was invalid.
EINTR
The operation was interrupted by delivery of a signal.
EXAMPLE
Retrieving the high water mark for outgoing messages.
/* Retrieve high water mark into sndhwm */
int sndhwm;
size_t sndhwm_size = sizeof (sndhwm);
rc = xs_getsockopt (socket, XS_SNDHWM, &sndhwm, &sndhwm_size);
assert (rc == 0);
SEE ALSO
xs_setsockopt(3) xs_socket(3) xs(7)
AUTHORS
The Crossroads documentation was written by Martin Sustrik <sustrik@250bpm.com[1]> and Martin Lucina
<martin@lucina.net[2]>.
NOTES
1. sustrik@250bpm.com
mailto:sustrik@250bpm.com
2. martin@lucina.net
mailto:martin@lucina.net
Crossroads I/O 1.2.0 06/13/2012 XS_GETSOCKOPT(3)