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X/Open Networking Services Library Functionssend(3XNET)


NAME

 send - send a message on a socket

SYNOPSIS

 
cc [ flag ... ] file ... -lxnet [ library ... ]
#include <sys/socket.h>
ssize_t send(int socket, const void *buffer, size_t length, int flags);

DESCRIPTION

 

socket
Specifies the socket file descriptor.
buffer
Points to the buffer containing the message to send.
length
Specifies the length of the message in bytes.
flags
Specifies the type of message transmission. Values of this argument are formed by logically OR'ing zero or more of the following flags:
MSG_EOR
Terminates a record (if supported by the protocol)
MSG_OOB
Sends out-of-band data on sockets that support out-of-band communications. The significance and semantics of out-of-band data are protocol-specific.

The send() function initiates transmission of a message from the specified socket to its peer. The send() function sends a message only when the socket is connected (including when the peer of a connectionless socket has been set via connect(3XNET)).

The length of the message to be sent is specified by the length argument. If the message is too long to pass through the underlying protocol, send() fails and no data is transmitted.

Successful completion of a call to send() does not guarantee delivery of the message. A return value of -1 indicates only locally-detected errors.

If space is not available at the sending socket to hold the message to be transmitted and the socket file descriptor does not have O_NONBLOCK set, send() blocks until space is available. If space is not available at the sending socket to hold the message to be transmitted and the socket file descriptor does have O_NONBLOCK set, send() will fail. The select(3C) and poll(2) functions can be used to determine when it is possible to send more data.

The socket in use may require the process to have appropriate privileges to use the send() function.

USAGE

 

The send() function is identical to sendto(3XNET) with a null pointer dest_len argument, and to write() if no flags are used.

RETURN VALUES

 

Upon successful completion, send() returns the number of bytes sent. Otherwise, -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS

 

The send() function will fail if:

EAGAIN
EWOULDBLOCK
The socket's file descriptor is marked O_NONBLOCK and the requested operation would block.
EBADF
The socket argument is not a valid file descriptor.
ECONNRESET
A connection was forcibly closed by a peer.
EDESTADDRREQ
The socket is not connection-mode and no peer address is set.
EFAULT
The buffer parameter can not be accessed.
EINTR
A signal interrupted send() before any data was transmitted.
EMSGSIZE
The message is too large be sent all at once, as the socket requires.
ENOTCONN
The socket is not connected or otherwise has not had the peer prespecified.
ENOTSOCK
The socket argument does not refer to a socket.
EOPNOTSUPP
The socket argument is associated with a socket that does not support one or more of the values set in flags.
EPIPE
The socket is shut down for writing, or the socket is connection-mode and is no longer connected. In the latter case, and if the socket is of type SOCK_STREAM, the SIGPIPE signal is generated to the calling process.

The send() function may fail if:

EACCES
The calling process does not have the appropriate privileges.
EIO
An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.
ENETDOWN
The local interface used to reach the destination is down.
ENETUNREACH
No route to the network is present.
ENOBUFS
Insufficient resources were available in the system to perform the operation.
ENOSR
There were insufficient STREAMS resources available for the operation to complete.

ATTRIBUTES

 

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
MT-LevelMT-Safe

SEE ALSO

 

connect(3XNET), getsockopt(3XNET), poll(2), recv(3XNET), recvfrom(3XNET), recvmsg(3XNET), select(3C), sendmsg(3XNET), sendto(3XNET), setsockopt(3XNET), shutdown(3XNET), socket(3XNET), attributes(5)


SunOS 5.9Go To TopLast Changed 8 May 1998

 
      
      
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