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| author | Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org> | 2016-09-10 15:01:14 +0000 |
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| committer | Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org> | 2016-09-10 15:01:14 +0000 |
| commit | c4fe75fd62ad8b53e98472874c07182f74832ecb (patch) | |
| tree | 97edcae6128b12d3053a25b5b858bbfdde7bc757 /doc/s6-tcpserver6-socketbinder.html | |
| parent | 5d417a186a73712b22faae4d1b9654c095342aaa (diff) | |
| download | s6-networking-c4fe75fd62ad8b53e98472874c07182f74832ecb.tar.xz | |
Add options to s6-tcpserver4-socketbinder and s6-tcpserver6-socketbinder to create UDP sockets; also to not listen(). (Suggested by Daniel Kahn Gillmor.)
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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/s6-tcpserver6-socketbinder.html b/doc/s6-tcpserver6-socketbinder.html index ea2bc24..d497342 100644 --- a/doc/s6-tcpserver6-socketbinder.html +++ b/doc/s6-tcpserver6-socketbinder.html @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ socket to an IPv6 address and port, then executes a program. <h2> Interface </h2> <pre> - s6-tcpserver6-socketbinder [ -d | -D ] [ -b <em>backlog</em> ] <em>ip</em> <em>port</em> <em>prog...</em> + s6-tcpserver6-socketbinder [ -d | -D ] [ -b <em>backlog</em> ] [ -M | -m ] <em>ip</em> <em>port</em> <em>prog...</em> </pre> <ul> @@ -47,13 +47,22 @@ even if it has been used not long ago - this is the SO_REUSEADDR flag to and is generally used with server programs. This is the default. </li> <li> <tt>-D</tt> : disallow instant rebinding to the same path. </li> <li> <tt>-b <em>backlog</em></tt> : set a maximum of -<em>backlog</em> backlog connections on the socket. Extra -connection attempts will rejected by the kernel. </li> +<em>backlog</em> backlog connections on the socket - extra +connection attempts will rejected by the kernel. The default is SOMAXCONN, +i.e. the maximum number allowed by the system. If <em>backlog</em> +is 0, then the socket will be created, but it <strong>will not be +listening</em>. </li> + <li> <tt>-M</tt> : create a TCP socket. This is the default. </li> + <li> <tt>-m</tt> : create a UDP socket. Note +that by default UDP sockets are not connection-mode, and <tt>listen()</tt> +will fail - so you should always give the <tt>-b0</tt> option to +s6-tcpserver6-socketbinder along with <tt>-m</tt>. </li> </ul> <h2> Notes </h2> <ul> + <li> The socket is provided <strong>non-blocking</strong>. </li> <li> s6-tcpserver6-socketbinder is part of a set of basic blocks used to build a flexible TCP/IPv6 super-server. It normally should be given a command line crafted to make it execute into |