lc_socket_new3

Usage

#include <librecast/net.h>

Library

Librecast library (liblibrecast, -llibrecast)

Overview

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).