Linux / Unix Command: listen

Command Library

NAME

listen - listen for connections on a socket  

SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/socket.h>

int listen(int s, int backlog);  

DESCRIPTION

To accept connections, a socket is first created with socket(2), a willingness to accept incoming connections and a queue limit for incoming connections are specified with listen, and then the connections are accepted with accept(2). The listen call applies only to sockets of type SOCK_STREAM or SOCK_SEQPACKET.

The backlog parameter defines the maximum length the queue of pending connections may grow to. If a connection request arrives with the queue full the client may receive an error with an indication of ECONNREFUSED or, if the underlying protocol supports retransmission, the request may be ignored so that retries succeed.  

SEE ALSO

accept(2), connect(2), socket(2)

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