The socketpair() library call creates an unnamed pair of connected sockets in the specified address family domain, of the specified type, that uses the optionally specified protocol. The descriptors that are used in referencing the new sockets are returned in sv[0] and sv[1]. The two sockets
are indistinguishable.
RETURN VALUES
socketpair() returns -1 on failure and 0 on success.
ERRORS
The call succeeds unless:
EAFNOSUPPORT
The specified address family is not supported on this machine.
EMFILE
Too many descriptors are in use by this process.
ENOMEM
There was insufficient user memory for the operation to complete.
ENOSR
There were insufficient STREAMS resources for the operation to complete.
EOPNOTSUPP
The specified protocol does not support creation of socket pairs.
EPROTONOSUPPORT
The specified protocol is not supported on this machine.
EACCES
The process does not have appropriate privileges.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: