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If applicable, add the following below this CDDL HEADER, with .\" the fields enclosed by brackets "[]" replaced with your own identifying information: Portions Copyright [yyyy] [name of copyright owner] .TH SEND 3SOCKET "September 10, 2018" .SH NAME send, sendto, sendmsg \- send a message from a socket .SH SYNOPSIS .LP .nf \fBcc\fR [ \fIflag\fR... ] \fIfile\fR... \fB-lsocket\fR \fB -lnsl \fR [ \fIlibrary\fR... ] #include #include \fBssize_t\fR \fBsend\fR(\fBint\fR \fIs\fR, \fBconst void *\fR\fImsg\fR, \fBsize_t\fR \fIlen\fR, \fBint\fR \fIflags\fR); .fi .LP .nf \fBssize_t\fR \fBsendto\fR(\fBint\fR \fIs\fR, \fBconst void *\fR\fImsg\fR, \fBsize_t\fR \fIlen\fR, \fBint\fR \fIflags\fR, \fBconst struct sockaddr *\fR\fIto\fR, \fBint\fR \fItolen\fR); .fi .LP .nf \fBssize_t\fR \fBsendmsg\fR(\fBint\fR \fIs\fR, \fBconst struct msghdr *\fR\fImsg\fR, \fBint\fR \fIflags\fR); .fi .SH DESCRIPTION .LP The \fBsend()\fR, \fBsendto()\fR, and \fBsendmsg()\fR functions are used to transmit a message to another transport end-point. The \fBsend()\fR function can be used only when the socket is in a connected state. See \fBconnect\fR(3SOCKET). The \fBsendto()\fR and \fBsendmsg()\fR functions can be used at any time. The \fIs\fR socket is created with \fBsocket\fR(3SOCKET). .sp .LP The address of the target is supplied by \fIto\fR with a \fItolen\fR parameter used to specify the size. The length of the message is supplied by the \fIlen\fR parameter. For socket types such as \fBSOCK_DGRAM\fR and \fBSOCK_RAW\fR that require atomic messages, the error \fBEMSGSIZE\fR is returned and the message is not transmitted when it is too long to pass atomically through the underlying protocol. The same restrictions do not apply to \fBSOCK_STREAM\fR sockets. .sp .LP A return value \fB\(mi1\fR indicates locally detected errors. It does not imply a delivery failure. .sp .LP If the socket does not have enough buffer space available to hold a message, the \fBsend()\fR function blocks the message, unless the socket has been placed in non-blocking I/O mode (see \fBfcntl\fR(2)). The \fBselect\fR(3C) or \fBpoll\fR(2) call can be used to determine when it is possible to send more data. .sp .LP The \fIflags\fR parameter is formed from the bitwise OR of zero or more of the following: .sp .ne 2 .na \fB\fBMSG_OOB\fR\fR .ad .RS 17n Send \fBout-of-band\fR data on sockets that support this notion. The underlying protocol must also support \fBout-of-band\fR data. Only \fBSOCK_STREAM\fR sockets created in the \fBAF_INET\fR or the \fBAF_INET6\fR address family support out-of-band data. .RE .sp .ne 2 .na \fB\fBMSG_DONTROUTE\fR\fR .ad .RS 17n The \fBSO_DONTROUTE\fR option is turned on for the duration of the operation. It is used only by diagnostic or routing programs. .RE .sp .ne 2 .na \fB\fBMSG_NOSIGNAL\fR\fR .ad .RS 17n Don't generate the \fBSIGPIPE\fR signal when a stream-oriented socket is no longer connected. .RE .sp .LP The \fBsendmsg()\fR function call uses a \fBmsghdr\fR structure defined in <\fBsys/socket.h\fR> to minimize the number of directly supplied parameters. .SH RETURN VALUES .LP Upon successful completion, these functions return the number of bytes sent. Otherwise, they return \fB-1\fR and set \fBerrno\fR to indicate the error. .SH ERRORS .LP In addition to the errors documented below, an asynchronous error generated by the underlying socket protocol may be returned. For the full list of errors, please see the corresponding socket protocol manual page. For example, for a list of TCP errors, please see \fBtcp\fR(4P). .sp .LP The \fBsend()\fR, \fBsendto()\fR, and \fBsendmsg()\fR functions return errors under the following conditions: .sp .ne 2 .na \fB\fBEBADF\fR\fR .ad .RS 16n \fIs\fR is not a valid file descriptor. .RE .sp .ne 2 .na \fB\fBECONNRESET\fR\fR .ad .RS 16n The \fIs\fR argument refers to a connection oriented socket and the connection was forcibly closed by the peer and is no longer valid. I/O can no longer be performed to \fIfiledes\fR. .RE .sp .ne 2 .na \fB\fBEINTR\fR\fR .ad .RS 16n The operation was interrupted by delivery of a signal before any data could be buffered to be sent. .RE .sp .ne 2 .na \fB\fBEMSGSIZE\fR\fR .ad .RS 16n The message is too large to be sent all at once (as the socket requires), or the \fImsg_iovlen\fR member of the \fBmsghdr\fR structure pointed to by message is less than or equal to 0 or is greater than {\fBIOV_MAX\fR}. .RE .sp .ne 2 .na \fB\fBENOMEM\fR\fR .ad .RS 16n Insufficient memory is available to complete the operation. .RE .sp .ne 2 .na \fB\fBENOSR\fR\fR .ad .RS 16n Insufficient STREAMS resources are available for the operation to complete. .RE .sp .ne 2 .na \fB\fBENOTSOCK\fR\fR .ad .RS 16n \fIs\fR is not a socket. .RE .sp .ne 2 .na \fB\fBEWOULDBLOCK\fR\fR .ad .RS 16n The socket is marked non-blocking and the requested operation would block. \fBEWOULDBLOCK\fR is also returned when sufficient memory is not immediately available to allocate a suitable buffer. In such a case, the operation can be retried later. .RE .sp .ne 2 .na \fB\fBECONNREFUSED\fR\fR .ad .RS 16n The requested connection was refused by the peer. For connected IPv4 and IPv6 datagram sockets, this indicates that the system received an \fBICMP Destination Port Unreachable\fR message from the peer in response to some prior transmission. .RE .sp .LP The \fBsend()\fR and \fBsendto()\fR functions return errors under the following conditions: .sp .ne 2 .na \fB\fBEINVAL\fR\fR .ad .RS 10n The \fIlen\fR argument overflows a \fBssize_t\fR. .sp Inconsistent port attributes for system call. .RE .sp .LP The \fBsendto()\fR function returns errors under the following conditions: .sp .ne 2 .na \fB\fBEINVAL\fR\fR .ad .RS 10n The value specified for the \fItolen\fR parameter is not the size of a valid address for the specified address family. .RE .sp .ne 2 .na \fB\fBEISCON\fR\fR .ad .RS 10n A destination address was specified and the socket is already connected. .RE .sp .LP The \fBsendmsg()\fR function returns errors under the following conditions: .sp .ne 2 .na \fB\fBEINVAL\fR\fR .ad .RS 10n The \fBmsg_iovlen\fR member of the \fBmsghdr\fR structure pointed to by \fImsg\fR is less than or equal to \fB0\fR, or the sum of the \fIiov_len\fR values in the \fBmsg_iov\fR array overflows a \fBssize_t\fR. .sp One of the \fIiov_len\fR values in the \fBmsg_iov\fR array member of the \fBmsghdr\fR structure pointed to by \fImsg\fR is negative, or the sum of the \fIiov_len\fR values in the \fBmsg_iov\fR array overflows a \fBssize_t\fR. .sp \fBmsg_iov\fR contents are inconsistent with port attributes. .RE .sp .LP The \fBsend()\fR function returns errors under the following conditions: .sp .ne 2 .na \fB\fBEPIPE\fR\fR .ad .RS 9n The socket is shut down for writing, or the socket is connection-mode and is no longer connected. In the latter case, if the socket is of type \fBSOCK_STREAM\fR, the \fBSIGPIPE\fR signal is generated to the calling thread unless the \fBMSG_NOSIGNAL\fR flag is set. .RE .SH ATTRIBUTES .LP See \fBattributes\fR(7) for descriptions of the following attributes: .sp .sp .TS box; c | c l | l . ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE _ Interface Stability Committed _ MT-Level Safe .TE .SH SEE ALSO .LP .BR fcntl (2), .BR poll (2), .BR write (2), .BR select (3C), .BR socket.h (3HEAD), .BR connect (3SOCKET), .BR getsockopt (3SOCKET), .BR recv (3SOCKET), .BR sockaddr (3SOCKET), .BR socket (3SOCKET), .BR tcp (4P), .BR attributes (7)