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#include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/socket.h>ssize_t send(int s, const void *msg, size_t len, int flags);
send(), sendto(), and sendmsg() are used to transmit a message to another transport end-point. send() may be used only when the socket is in a connected state, while sendto() and sendmsg() may be used at any time. s is a socket created with socket(3SOCKET).
The address of the target is given by to with tolen specifying its size. The length of the message is given by len. If the message is too long to pass atomically through the underlying protocol, then the error EMSGSIZE is returned, and the message is not transmitted.
A return value of -1 indicates locally detected errors only. It does not implicitly mean the message was not delivered.
If the socket does not have enough buffer space available to hold the message being sent, send() blocks, unless the socket has been placed in non-blocking I/O mode (see fcntl(2)). The select(3C) or poll(2) call may be used to determine when it is possible to send more data.
The flags parameter is formed from the bitwise OR of zero or more of the following:
Send "out-of-band" data on sockets that support this notion. The underlying protocol must also support "out-of-band" data. Only SOCK_STREAM sockets created in the AF_INET address families support out-of-band data.
The SO_DONTROUTE option is turned on for the duration of the operation. It is used only by diagnostic or routing programs.
See recv(3SOCKET), for a description of the msghdr structure.
These calls return the number of bytes sent, or -1 if an error occurred.
The calls fail if:
s is an invalid file descriptor.
The operation was interrupted by delivery of a signal before any data could be buffered to be sent.
tolen is not the size of a valid address for the specified address family.
The socket requires that message be sent atomically, and the message was too long.
There was insufficient memory available to complete the operation.
There were insufficient STREAMS resources available for the operation to complete.
s is not a socket.
The socket is marked non-blocking and the requested operation would block.
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
---|---|
MT-Level | Safe |
If the process calling these routines possesses the PRIV_NET_REPLY_EQUAL
privilege, the packets the process sends will carry the same CMW label as that of the last packet received from the destination. If no packet from the destination
has ever been received, this privilege has no effect.
fcntl(2), write(2), getsockopt(3SOCKET), socket(3SOCKET)
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