SOCKATMARK(3) BSD Library Functions Manual SOCKATMARK(3)NAMEsockatmark — determine whether a socket is at the out-of-band mark
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/socket.h>
int
sockatmark(int s);
DESCRIPTION
The sockatmark function determines whether the socket referenced by the
file descriptor s is at the out-of-band mark.
RETURN VALUES
If successful, the sockatmark function returns 1 to indicate that the
socket is at an out-of-band mark; 0 is returned if there is no out-of-
band mark or the mark is preceded by in-band data. Otherwise, -1 is
returned and errno is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
The sockatmark function will fail if:
[EBADF] The argument s is not a valid file descriptor.
[ENOTTY] The file descriptor s does not refer to a socket.
SEE ALSOioctl(2), recv(2), socket(2)
Stuart Sechrest, An Introductory 4.4BSD Interprocess Communication
Tutorial. (see /usr/share/doc/psd/20.ipctut)
Samuel J. Leffler, Robert S. Fabry, William N. Joy, Phil Lapsley, Steve
Miller, and Chris Torek, Advanced 4.4BSD IPC Tutorial. (see
/usr/share/doc/psd/21.ipc)
STANDARDS
The sockatmark function conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (“POSIX.1”).
HISTORY
The sockatmark function appeared in IEEE Std 1003.1g-2000 (“POSIX.1”) as
a replacement for the SIOCATMARK ioctl(2) interface.
BSD May 15, 2003 BSD