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LC_SOCKET_NEW

NAME
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SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
RETURN VALUE
ERRORS
SEE ALSO

NAME

lc_socket_new, lc_socket_close - create and free Librecast sockets

LIBRARY

Librecast library ( liblibrecast , -llibrecast )

SYNOPSIS

#include <librecast/net.h>

lc_socket_t *lc_socket_new(lc_ctx_t *ctx );
void lc_socket_close(lc_socket_t
*sock );

Compile and link with -llibrecast .

DESCRIPTION

lc_socket_new () creates a new Librecast socket. Call lc_socket_close (3) when done.

Sockets can also be freed by a call to lc_ctx_free (3) on the Librecast context which will free the context and all associated sockets and channels.

lc_socket_free () closes and frees a Librecast socket created with lc_socket_new (3)

RETURN VALUE

lc_socket_new () returns a pointer to a lc_socket_t handle. On error returns NULL and sets errno .

The lc_socket_close () function returns no value.

ERRORS

lc_socket_new () can fail with the following errors:

ENOMEM

Out of memory. Possibly, the application hit the RLIMIT_AS or RLIMIT_DATA limit described in getrlimit (2).

lc_socket_new () could also fail with any of the errors listed in socket (2) or setsockopt (2).

SEE ALSO

lc_channel_new (3), lc_ctx_new (3), lc_socket_setopt (3), setsockopt (2), socket (2)