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The socket Linux interface manual page. BSD-compliant sockets provide a unified interface between the user process and the kernel's network protocol stacks.

 

 

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SOCKET(7)                                            Linux Programmer's Manual                                            SOCKET(7)

NAME
       socket - Linux socket interface

SYNOPSIS
       #include <sys/socket.h>

       sockfd = socket(int socket_family, int socket_type, int protocol);

DESCRIPTION
       This manual page describes the Linux networking socket layer user interface.  The BSD compatible sockets are the uniform in‐
       terface between the user process and the network protocol stacks in the kernel.  The protocol modules are grouped into  pro‐
       tocol  families  such  as AF_INET, AF_IPX, and AF_PACKET, and socket types such as SOCK_STREAM or SOCK_DGRAM.  See socket(2)
       for more information on families and types.

   Socket-layer functions
       These functions are used by the user process to send or receive packets and to do other socket operations.  For more  infor‐
       mation see their respective manual pages.

       socket(2)  creates a socket, connect(2) connects a socket to a remote socket address, the bind(2) function binds a socket to
       a local socket address, listen(2) tells the socket that new connections shall be accepted, and accept(2) is used  to  get  a
       new  socket  with  a new incoming connection.  socketpair(2) returns two connected anonymous sockets (implemented only for a
       few local families like AF_UNIX)

       send(2), sendto(2), and sendmsg(2) send data over a socket, and recv(2), recvfrom(2), recvmsg(2) receive data from a socket.
       poll(2)  and  select(2)  wait  for arriving data or a readiness to send data.  In addition, the standard I/O operations like
       write(2), writev(2), sendfile(2), read(2), and readv(2) can be used to read and write data.

       getsockname(2) returns the local socket address and getpeername(2) returns the remote  socket  address.   getsockopt(2)  and
       setsockopt(2)  are  used to set or get socket layer or protocol options.  ioctl(2) can be used to set or read some other op‐
       tions.

       close(2) is used to close a socket.  shutdown(2) closes parts of a full-duplex socket connection.

       Seeking, or calling pread(2) or pwrite(2) with a nonzero position is not supported on sockets.

       It is possible to do nonblocking I/O on sockets by setting the O_NONBLOCK flag on a socket file descriptor  using  fcntl(2).
       Then  all operations that would block will (usually) return with EAGAIN (operation should be retried later); connect(2) will
       return EINPROGRESS error.  The user can then wait for various events via poll(2) or select(2).

       ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
       │                            I/O events                              │
       ├───────────┬───────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────┤
       │Event      │ Poll flag │ Occurrence                                 │
       ├───────────┼───────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤
       │Read       │ POLLIN    │ New data arrived.                          │
       ├───────────┼───────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤
       │Read       │ POLLIN    │ A connection setup has been completed (for │
       │           │           │ connection-oriented sockets)               │
       ├───────────┼───────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤
       │Read       │ POLLHUP   │ A disconnection request has been initiated │
       │           │           │ by the other end.                          │
       ├───────────┼───────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤
       │Read       │ POLLHUP   │ A connection is broken (only  for  connec‐ │
       │           │           │ tion-oriented protocols).  When the socket │
       │           │           │ is written SIGPIPE is also sent.           │
       ├───────────┼───────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤
       │Write      │ POLLOUT   │ Socket has enough send  buffer  space  for │
       │           │           │ writing new data.                          │
       ├───────────┼───────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤
       │Read/Write │ POLLIN |  │ An outgoing connect(2) finished.           │
       │           │ POLLOUT   │                                            │
       ├───────────┼───────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤
       │Read/Write │ POLLERR   │ An asynchronous error occurred.            │
       ├───────────┼───────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤
       │Read/Write │ POLLHUP   │ The other end has shut down one direction. │
       ├───────────┼───────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────┤
       │Exception  │ POLLPRI   │ Urgent data arrived.  SIGURG is sent then. │
       └───────────┴───────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────┘
       An  alternative  to  poll(2) and select(2) is to let the kernel inform the application about events via a SIGIO signal.  For
       that the O_ASYNC flag must be set on a socket file descriptor via fcntl(2) and a valid signal handler for SIGIO must be  in‐
       stalled via sigaction(2).  See the Signals discussion below.

   Socket address structures
       Each  socket domain has its own format for socket addresses, with a domain-specific address structure.  Each of these struc‐
       tures begins with an integer "family" field (typed as sa_family_t) that indicates the type of the address  structure.   This
       allows the various system calls (e.g., connect(2), bind(2), accept(2), getsockname(2), getpeername(2)), which are generic to
       all socket domains, to determine the domain of a particular socket address.

       To allow any type of socket address to be passed to interfaces in the sockets API, the type struct sockaddr is defined.  The
       purpose  of this type is purely to allow casting of domain-specific socket address types to a "generic" type, so as to avoid
       compiler warnings about type mismatches in calls to the sockets API.

       In addition, the sockets API provides the data type struct sockaddr_storage.  This type is suitable to accommodate all  sup‐
       ported  domain-specific  socket address structures; it is large enough and is aligned properly.  (In particular, it is large
       enough to hold IPv6 socket addresses.)  The structure includes the following field, which can be used to identify  the  type
       of socket address actually stored in the structure:

               sa_family_t ss_family;

       The sockaddr_storage structure is useful in programs that must handle socket addresses in a generic way (e.g., programs that
       must deal with both IPv4 and IPv6 socket addresses).

   Socket options
       The socket options listed below can be set by using setsockopt(2) and read with getsockopt(2) with the socket level  set  to
       SOL_SOCKET for all sockets.  Unless otherwise noted, optval is a pointer to an int.

       SO_ACCEPTCONN
              Returns  a  value  indicating  whether  or not this socket has been marked to accept connections with listen(2).  The
              value 0 indicates that this is not a listening socket, the value 1 indicates that this is a listening  socket.   This
              socket option is read-only.

       SO_ATTACH_FILTER (since Linux 2.2), SO_ATTACH_BPF (since Linux 3.19)
              Attach  a classic BPF (SO_ATTACH_FILTER) or an extended BPF (SO_ATTACH_BPF) program to the socket for use as a filter
              of incoming packets.  A packet will be dropped if the filter program returns zero.  If the filter program  returns  a
              nonzero  value  which is less than the packet's data length, the packet will be truncated to the length returned.  If
              the value returned by the filter is greater than or equal to the packet's data length, the packet is allowed to  pro‐
              ceed unmodified.

              The argument for SO_ATTACH_FILTER is a sock_fprog structure, defined in <linux/filter.h>:

                  struct sock_fprog {
                      unsigned short      len;
                      struct sock_filter *filter;
                  };

              The argument for SO_ATTACH_BPF is a file descriptor returned by the bpf(2) system call and must refer to a program of
              type BPF_PROG_TYPE_SOCKET_FILTER.

              These options may be set multiple times for a given socket, each time replacing the  previous  filter  program.   The
              classic  and extended versions may be called on the same socket, but the previous filter will always be replaced such
              that a socket never has more than one filter defined.

              Both classic and extended BPF are explained in the kernel source file Documentation/networking/filter.txt

       SO_ATTACH_REUSEPORT_CBPF, SO_ATTACH_REUSEPORT_EBPF
              For use with the SO_REUSEPORT option, these options allow the user to set a classic BPF (SO_ATTACH_REUSEPORT_CBPF) or
              an  extended  BPF  (SO_ATTACH_REUSEPORT_EBPF)  program  which  defines how packets are assigned to the sockets in the
              reuseport group (that is, all sockets which have SO_REUSEPORT set and are using the same  local  address  to  receive
              packets).

              The BPF program must return an index between 0 and N-1 representing the socket which should receive the packet (where
              N is the number of sockets in the group).  If the BPF program returns an invalid index, socket  selection  will  fall
              back to the plain SO_REUSEPORT mechanism.

              Sockets  are  numbered in the order in which they are added to the group (that is, the order of bind(2) calls for UDP
              sockets or the order of listen(2) calls for TCP sockets).  New sockets added to a reuseport group  will  inherit  the
              BPF  program.   When  a socket is removed from a reuseport group (via close(2)), the last socket in the group will be
              moved into the closed socket's position.

              These options may be set repeatedly at any time on any socket in the group to replace the current BPF program used by
              all sockets in the group.

              SO_ATTACH_REUSEPORT_CBPF takes the same argument type as SO_ATTACH_FILTER and SO_ATTACH_REUSEPORT_EBPF takes the same
              argument type as SO_ATTACH_BPF.

              UDP support for this feature is available since Linux 4.5; TCP support is available since Linux 4.6.

       SO_BINDTODEVICE
              Bind this socket to a particular device like “eth0”, as specified in the passed interface name.  If the  name  is  an
              empty  string  or  the option length is zero, the socket device binding is removed.  The passed option is a variable-
              length null-terminated interface name string with the maximum size of IFNAMSIZ.  If a socket is bound  to  an  inter‐
              face,  only  packets  received from that particular interface are processed by the socket.  Note that this works only
              for some socket types, particularly AF_INET sockets.  It is not supported for  packet  sockets  (use  normal  bind(2)
              there).

              Before  Linux  3.8, this socket option could be set, but could not retrieved with getsockopt(2).  Since Linux 3.8, it
              is readable.  The optlen argument should contain the buffer size available to receive the device name and  is  recom‐
              mended to be IFNAMSIZ bytes.  The real device name length is reported back in the optlen argument.

       SO_BROADCAST
              Set  or  get  the broadcast flag.  When enabled, datagram sockets are allowed to send packets to a broadcast address.
              This option has no effect on stream-oriented sockets.

       SO_BSDCOMPAT
              Enable BSD bug-to-bug compatibility.  This is used by the UDP protocol module in Linux 2.0 and 2.2.  If enabled, ICMP
              errors  received for a UDP socket will not be passed to the user program.  In later kernel versions, support for this
              option has been phased out: Linux 2.4 silently ignores it, and Linux 2.6 generates a kernel warning (printk())  if  a
              program uses this option.  Linux 2.0 also enabled BSD bug-to-bug compatibility options (random header changing, skip‐
              ping of the broadcast flag) for raw sockets with this option, but that was removed in Linux 2.2.

       SO_DEBUG
              Enable socket debugging.  Allowed only for processes with the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability or an effective user ID of 0.

       SO_DETACH_FILTER (since Linux 2.2), SO_DETACH_BPF (since Linux 3.19)
              These two options, which are synonyms, may be used to remove the classic or extended BPF program attached to a socket
              with either SO_ATTACH_FILTER or SO_ATTACH_BPF.  The option value is ignored.

       SO_DOMAIN (since Linux 2.6.32)
              Retrieves  the  socket  domain  as  an integer, returning a value such as AF_INET6.  See socket(2) for details.  This
              socket option is read-only.

       SO_ERROR
              Get and clear the pending socket error.  This socket option is read-only.  Expects an integer.

       SO_DONTROUTE
              Don't send via a gateway, send only to directly connected hosts.  The same effect can  be  achieved  by  setting  the
              MSG_DONTROUTE flag on a socket send(2) operation.  Expects an integer boolean flag.

       SO_INCOMING_CPU (gettable since Linux 3.19, settable since Linux 4.4)
              Sets or gets the CPU affinity of a socket.  Expects an integer flag.

                  int cpu = 1;
                  setsockopt(fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_INCOMING_CPU, &cpu, sizeof(cpu));

              Because all of the packets for a single stream (i.e., all packets for the same 4-tuple) arrive on the single RX queue
              that is associated with a particular CPU, the typical use case is to employ one listening process per RX queue,  with
              the  incoming  flow being handled by a listener on the same CPU that is handling the RX queue.  This provides optimal
              NUMA behavior and keeps CPU caches hot.

       SO_KEEPALIVE
              Enable sending of keep-alive messages on connection-oriented sockets.  Expects an integer boolean flag.

       SO_LINGER
              Sets or gets the SO_LINGER option.  The argument is a linger structure.

                  struct linger {
                      int l_onoff;    /* linger active */
                      int l_linger;   /* how many seconds to linger for */
                  };

              When enabled, a close(2) or shutdown(2) will not return until all queued messages for the socket have  been  success‐
              fully  sent  or the linger timeout has been reached.  Otherwise, the call returns immediately and the closing is done
              in the background.  When the socket is closed as part of exit(2), it always lingers in the background.

       SO_LOCK_FILTER
              When set, this option will prevent changing the filters associated with the socket.  These filters  include  any  set
              using the socket options SO_ATTACH_FILTER, SO_ATTACH_BPF, SO_ATTACH_REUSEPORT_CBPF and SO_ATTACH_REUSEPORT_EPBF.

              The  typical  use case is for a privileged process to set up a raw socket (an operation that requires the CAP_NET_RAW
              capability), apply a restrictive filter, set the SO_LOCK_FILTER option, and then either drop its privileges  or  pass
              the socket file descriptor to an unprivileged process via a UNIX domain socket.

              Once  the SO_LOCK_FILTER option has been enabled, attempts to change or remove the filter attached to a socket, or to
              disable the SO_LOCK_FILTER option will fail with the error EPERM.

       SO_MARK (since Linux 2.6.25)
              Set the mark for each packet sent through this socket (similar  to  the  netfilter  MARK  target  but  socket-based).
              Changing  the mark can be used for mark-based routing without netfilter or for packet filtering.  Setting this option
              requires the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.

       SO_OOBINLINE
              If this option is enabled, out-of-band data is directly placed into the receive data stream.  Otherwise,  out-of-band
              data is passed only when the MSG_OOB flag is set during receiving.

       SO_PASSCRED
              Enable or disable the receiving of the SCM_CREDENTIALS control message.  For more information see unix(7).

       SO_PEEK_OFF (since Linux 3.4)
              This  option,  which  is  currently  supported  only for unix(7) sockets, sets the value of the "peek offset" for the
              recv(2) system call when used with MSG_PEEK flag.

              When this option is set to a negative value (it is set to -1 for all new sockets), traditional behavior is  provided:
              recv(2) with the MSG_PEEK flag will peek data from the front of the queue.

              When the option is set to a value greater than or equal to zero, then the next peek at data queued in the socket will
              occur at the byte offset specified by the option value.  At the same time, the "peek offset" will be  incremented  by
              the  number  of  bytes  that  were  peeked from the queue, so that a subsequent peek will return the next data in the
              queue.

              If data is removed from the front of the queue via a call to recv(2) (or similar)  without  the  MSG_PEEK  flag,  the
              "peek  offset" will be decreased by the number of bytes removed.  In other words, receiving data without the MSG_PEEK
              flag will cause the "peek offset" to be adjusted to maintain the correct relative position in  the  queued  data,  so
              that a subsequent peek will retrieve the data that would have been retrieved had the data not been removed.

              For  datagram  sockets,  if the "peek offset" points to the middle of a packet, the data returned will be marked with
              the MSG_TRUNC flag.

              The following example serves to illustrate the use of SO_PEEK_OFF.  Suppose a stream socket has the following  queued
              input data:

                  aabbccddeeff

              The following sequence of recv(2) calls would have the effect noted in the comments:

                  int ov = 4;                  // Set peek offset to 4
                  setsockopt(fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_PEEK_OFF, &ov, sizeof(ov));

                  recv(fd, buf, 2, MSG_PEEK);  // Peeks "cc"; offset set to 6
                  recv(fd, buf, 2, MSG_PEEK);  // Peeks "dd"; offset set to 8
                  recv(fd, buf, 2, 0);         // Reads "aa"; offset set to 6
                  recv(fd, buf, 2, MSG_PEEK);  // Peeks "ee"; offset set to 8

       SO_PEERCRED
              Return  the credentials of the foreign process connected to this socket.  This is possible only for connected AF_UNIX
              stream sockets and AF_UNIX stream and datagram socket pairs created using socketpair(2); see unix(7).   The  returned
              credentials  are those that were in effect at the time of the call to connect(2) or socketpair(2).  The argument is a
              ucred structure; define the _GNU_SOURCE  feature  test  macro  to  obtain  the  definition  of  that  structure  from
              <sys/socket.h>.  This socket option is read-only.

       SO_PRIORITY
              Set the protocol-defined priority for all packets to be sent on this socket.  Linux uses this value to order the net‐
              working queues: packets with a higher priority may be processed first depending on the selected device queueing  dis‐
              cipline.  Setting a priority outside the range 0 to 6 requires the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.

       SO_PROTOCOL (since Linux 2.6.32)
              Retrieves  the  socket  protocol  as  an integer, returning a value such as IPPROTO_SCTP.  See socket(2) for details.
              This socket option is read-only.

       SO_RCVBUF
              Sets or gets the maximum socket receive buffer in bytes.  The kernel doubles this value (to allow space for bookkeep‐
              ing  overhead)  when it is set using setsockopt(2), and this doubled value is returned by getsockopt(2).  The default
              value  is  set  by  the  /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_default  file,  and  the  maximum  allowed  value  is  set  by   the
              /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max file.  The minimum (doubled) value for this option is 256.

       SO_RCVBUFFORCE (since Linux 2.6.14)
              Using  this  socket  option,  a  privileged  (CAP_NET_ADMIN)  process can perform the same task as SO_RCVBUF, but the
              rmem_max limit can be overridden.

       SO_RCVLOWAT and SO_SNDLOWAT
              Specify the minimum number of bytes in the buffer until the socket layer will pass the data to the protocol  (SO_SND‐
              LOWAT) or the user on receiving (SO_RCVLOWAT).  These two values are initialized to 1.  SO_SNDLOWAT is not changeable
              on Linux (setsockopt(2) fails with the error ENOPROTOOPT).  SO_RCVLOWAT is changeable only since Linux 2.4.  The  se‐
              lect(2)  and  poll(2) system calls currently do not respect the SO_RCVLOWAT setting on Linux, and mark a socket read‐
              able when even a single byte of data is available.  A subsequent read from the socket will  block  until  SO_RCVLOWAT
              bytes are available.

       SO_RCVTIMEO and SO_SNDTIMEO
              Specify  the  receiving or sending timeouts until reporting an error.  The argument is a struct timeval.  If an input
              or output function blocks for this period of time, and data has been sent or received, the return value of that func‐
              tion  will  be the amount of data transferred; if no data has been transferred and the timeout has been reached, then
              -1 is returned with errno set to EAGAIN or EWOULDBLOCK, or EINPROGRESS (for connect(2)) just as  if  the  socket  was
              specified  to  be  nonblocking.   If the timeout is set to zero (the default), then the operation will never timeout.
              Timeouts only have effect for system calls that perform socket I/O (e.g., read(2), recvmsg(2), send(2),  sendmsg(2));
              timeouts have no effect for select(2), poll(2), epoll_wait(2), and so on.

       SO_REUSEADDR
              Indicates  that  the  rules  used  in validating addresses supplied in a bind(2) call should allow reuse of local ad‐
              dresses.  For AF_INET sockets this means that a socket may bind, except when there  is  an  active  listening  socket
              bound  to the address.  When the listening socket is bound to INADDR_ANY with a specific port then it is not possible
              to bind to this port for any local address.  Argument is an integer boolean flag.

       SO_REUSEPORT (since Linux 3.9)
              Permits multiple AF_INET or AF_INET6 sockets to be bound to an identical socket address.  This option must be set  on
              each  socket  (including the first socket) prior to calling bind(2) on the socket.  To prevent port hijacking, all of
              the processes binding to the same address must have the same effective UID.  This option can be  employed  with  both
              TCP and UDP sockets.

              For  TCP sockets, this option allows accept(2) load distribution in a multi-threaded server to be improved by using a
              distinct listener socket for each thread.  This provides improved load distribution as compared to traditional  tech‐
              niques  such using a single accept(2)ing thread that distributes connections, or having multiple threads that compete
              to accept(2) from the same socket.

              For UDP sockets, the use of this option can provide better distribution of incoming datagrams to  multiple  processes
              (or  threads)  as  compared to the traditional technique of having multiple processes compete to receive datagrams on
              the same socket.

       SO_RXQ_OVFL (since Linux 2.6.33)
              Indicates that an unsigned 32-bit value ancillary message (cmsg) should be attached to received skbs  indicating  the
              number of packets dropped by the socket since its creation.

       SO_SNDBUF
              Sets  or gets the maximum socket send buffer in bytes.  The kernel doubles this value (to allow space for bookkeeping
              overhead) when it is set using setsockopt(2), and this doubled value is returned by getsockopt(2).  The default value
              is   set   by   the   /proc/sys/net/core/wmem_default   file   and   the   maximum   allowed  value  is  set  by  the
              /proc/sys/net/core/wmem_max file.  The minimum (doubled) value for this option is 2048.

       SO_SNDBUFFORCE (since Linux 2.6.14)
              Using this socket option, a privileged (CAP_NET_ADMIN) process can perform  the  same  task  as  SO_SNDBUF,  but  the
              wmem_max limit can be overridden.

       SO_TIMESTAMP
              Enable  or  disable  the  receiving  of the SO_TIMESTAMP control message.  The timestamp control message is sent with
              level SOL_SOCKET and the cmsg_data field is a struct timeval indicating the reception time of the last packet  passed
              to the user in this call.  See cmsg(3) for details on control messages.

       SO_TYPE
              Gets the socket type as an integer (e.g., SOCK_STREAM).  This socket option is read-only.

       SO_BUSY_POLL (since Linux 3.11)
              Sets  the approximate time in microseconds to busy poll on a blocking receive when there is no data.  Increasing this
              value requires CAP_NET_ADMIN.  The default for this option is controlled by the /proc/sys/net/core/busy_read file.

              The value in the /proc/sys/net/core/busy_poll file determines how long select(2) and poll(2) will busy poll when they
              operate on sockets with SO_BUSY_POLL set and no events to report are found.

              In  both cases, busy polling will only be done when the socket last received data from a network device that supports
              this option.

              While busy polling may improve latency of some applications, care must be taken when using it  since  this  will  in‐
              crease both CPU utilization and power usage.

   Signals
       When  writing  onto a connection-oriented socket that has been shut down (by the local or the remote end) SIGPIPE is sent to
       the writing process and EPIPE is returned.  The signal is not sent when the write call specified the MSG_NOSIGNAL flag.

       When requested with the FIOSETOWN fcntl(2) or SIOCSPGRP ioctl(2), SIGIO is sent when an I/O event occurs.  It is possible to
       use  poll(2)  or  select(2)  in the signal handler to find out which socket the event occurred on.  An alternative (in Linux
       2.2) is to set a real-time signal using the F_SETSIG fcntl(2); the handler of the real time signal will be called  with  the
       file descriptor in the si_fd field of its siginfo_t.  See fcntl(2) for more information.

       Under  some circumstances (e.g., multiple processes accessing a single socket), the condition that caused the SIGIO may have
       already disappeared when the process reacts to the signal.  If this happens, the process should  wait  again  because  Linux
       will resend the signal later.

   /proc interfaces
       The core socket networking parameters can be accessed via files in the directory /proc/sys/net/core/.

       rmem_default
              contains the default setting in bytes of the socket receive buffer.

       rmem_max
              contains the maximum socket receive buffer size in bytes which a user may set by using the SO_RCVBUF socket option.

       wmem_default
              contains the default setting in bytes of the socket send buffer.

       wmem_max
              contains the maximum socket send buffer size in bytes which a user may set by using the SO_SNDBUF socket option.

       message_cost and message_burst
              configure the token bucket filter used to load limit warning messages caused by external network events.

       netdev_max_backlog
              Maximum number of packets in the global input queue.

       optmem_max
              Maximum length of ancillary data and user control data like the iovecs per socket.

   Ioctls
       These operations can be accessed using ioctl(2):

           error = ioctl(ip_socket, ioctl_type, &value_result);

       SIOCGSTAMP
              Return  a  struct timeval with the receive timestamp of the last packet passed to the user.  This is useful for accu‐
              rate round trip time measurements.  See setitimer(2) for a description of struct timeval.  This ioctl should be  used
              only  if  the  socket  option SO_TIMESTAMP is not set on the socket.  Otherwise, it returns the timestamp of the last
              packet that was received while SO_TIMESTAMP was not set, or it fails if no such  packet  has  been  received,  (i.e.,
              ioctl(2) returns -1 with errno set to ENOENT).

       SIOCSPGRP
              Set  the process or process group that is to receive SIGIO or SIGURG signals when I/O becomes possible or urgent data
              is available.  The argument is a pointer to a pid_t.  For further details, see the description  of  F_SETOWN  in  fc‐
              ntl(2).

       FIOASYNC
              Change  the  O_ASYNC flag to enable or disable asynchronous I/O mode of the socket.  Asynchronous I/O mode means that
              the SIGIO signal or the signal set with F_SETSIG is raised when a new I/O event occurs.

              Argument is an integer boolean flag.  (This operation is synonymous with the use  of  fcntl(2)  to  set  the  O_ASYNC
              flag.)

       SIOCGPGRP
              Get the current process or process group that receives SIGIO or SIGURG signals, or 0 when none is set.

       Valid fcntl(2) operations:

       FIOGETOWN
              The same as the SIOCGPGRP ioctl(2).

       FIOSETOWN
              The same as the SIOCSPGRP ioctl(2).

VERSIONS
       SO_BINDTODEVICE  was  introduced in Linux 2.0.30.  SO_PASSCRED is new in Linux 2.2.  The /proc interfaces were introduced in
       Linux 2.2.  SO_RCVTIMEO and SO_SNDTIMEO are supported since Linux 2.3.41.  Earlier, timeouts were fixed to  a  protocol-spe‐
       cific setting, and could not be read or written.

NOTES
       Linux  assumes  that  half  of the send/receive buffer is used for internal kernel structures; thus the values in the corre‐
       sponding /proc files are twice what can be observed on the wire.

       Linux will allow port reuse only with the SO_REUSEADDR option when this option was set both in  the  previous  program  that
       performed  a  bind(2)  to  the port and in the program that wants to reuse the port.  This differs from some implementations
       (e.g., FreeBSD) where only the later program needs to set the SO_REUSEADDR option.  Typically this difference is  invisible,
       since, for example, a server program is designed to always set this option.

SEE ALSO
       wireshark(1),  bpf(2),  connect(2),  getsockopt(2),  setsockopt(2),  socket(2),  pcap(3),  capabilities(7),  ddp(7),  ip(7),
       packet(7), tcp(7), udp(7), unix(7), tcpdump(8)

COLOPHON
       This page is part of release 4.16 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project, information about reporting
       bugs, and the latest version of this page, can be found at https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

Linux                                                        2018-02-02                                                   SOCKET(7)

 

 

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