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unix - sockets for local interprocess communicationSYNOPSIS top
**#include <sys/socket.h>**
**#include <sys/un.h>**
_unixsocket_ **= socket(AF_UNIX, type, 0);**
_error_ **= socketpair(AF_UNIX, type, 0, int ***_sv_**);**DESCRIPTION top
The **AF_UNIX** (also known as **AF_LOCAL**) socket family is used to
communicate between processes on the same machine efficiently.
Traditionally, UNIX domain sockets can be either unnamed, or bound
to a filesystem pathname (marked as being of type socket). Linux
also supports an abstract namespace which is independent of the
filesystem.
Valid socket types in the UNIX domain are: **SOCK_STREAM**, for a
stream-oriented socket; **SOCK_DGRAM**, for a datagram-oriented socket
that preserves message boundaries (as on most UNIX
implementations, UNIX domain datagram sockets are always reliable
and don't reorder datagrams); and (since Linux 2.6.4)
**SOCK_SEQPACKET**, for a sequenced-packet socket that is connection-
oriented, preserves message boundaries, and delivers messages in
the order that they were sent.
UNIX domain sockets support passing file descriptors or process
credentials to other processes using ancillary data.Address format A UNIX domain socket address is represented in the following structure:
struct sockaddr_un {
sa_family_t sun_family; /* AF_UNIX */
char sun_path[108]; /* Pathname */
};
The _sunfamily_ field always contains **AF_UNIX**. On Linux, _sunpath_
is 108 bytes in size; see also BUGS, below.
Various system calls (for example, [bind(2)](../man2/bind.2.html), [connect(2)](../man2/connect.2.html), and
[sendto(2)](../man2/sendto.2.html)) take a _sockaddrun_ argument as input. Some other
system calls (for example, [getsockname(2)](../man2/getsockname.2.html), [getpeername(2)](../man2/getpeername.2.html),
[recvfrom(2)](../man2/recvfrom.2.html), and [accept(2)](../man2/accept.2.html)) return an argument of this type.
Three types of address are distinguished in the _sockaddrun_
structure:
pathname
a UNIX domain socket can be bound to a null-terminated
filesystem pathname using [bind(2)](../man2/bind.2.html). When the address of a
pathname socket is returned (by one of the system calls
noted above), its length is
offsetof(struct sockaddr_un, sun_path) + strlen(sun_path) + 1
and _sunpath_ contains the null-terminated pathname. (On
Linux, the above **offsetof**() expression equates to the same
value as _sizeof(safamilyt)_, but some other
implementations include other fields before _sunpath_, so
the **offsetof**() expression more portably describes the size
of the address structure.)
For further details of pathname sockets, see below.
unnamed
A stream socket that has not been bound to a pathname using
[bind(2)](../man2/bind.2.html) has no name. Likewise, the two sockets created by
[socketpair(2)](../man2/socketpair.2.html) are unnamed. When the address of an unnamed
socket is returned, its length is _sizeof(safamilyt)_, and
_sunpath_ should not be inspected.
abstract
an abstract socket address is distinguished (from a
pathname socket) by the fact that _sunpath[0]_ is a null
byte ('\0'). The socket's address in this namespace is
given by the additional bytes in _sunpath_ that are covered
by the specified length of the address structure. (Null
bytes in the name have no special significance.) The name
has no connection with filesystem pathnames. When the
address of an abstract socket is returned, the returned
_addrlen_ is greater than _sizeof(safamilyt)_ (i.e., greater
than 2), and the name of the socket is contained in the
first _(addrlen - sizeof(safamilyt))_ bytes of _sunpath_.Pathname sockets When binding a socket to a pathname, a few rules should be observed for maximum portability and ease of coding:
• The pathname in _sunpath_ should be null-terminated.
• The length of the pathname, including the terminating null
byte, should not exceed the size of _sunpath_.
• The _addrlen_ argument that describes the enclosing _sockaddrun_
structure should have a value of at least:
offsetof(struct sockaddr_un, sun_path)+strlen(addr.sun_path)+1
or, more simply, _addrlen_ can be specified as _sizeof(struct_
_sockaddrun)_.
There is some variation in how implementations handle UNIX domain
socket addresses that do not follow the above rules. For example,
some (but not all) implementations append a null terminator if
none is present in the supplied _sunpath_.
When coding portable applications, keep in mind that some
implementations have _sunpath_ as short as 92 bytes.
Various system calls ([accept(2)](../man2/accept.2.html), [recvfrom(2)](../man2/recvfrom.2.html), [getsockname(2)](../man2/getsockname.2.html),
[getpeername(2)](../man2/getpeername.2.html)) return socket address structures. When applied to
UNIX domain sockets, the value-result _addrlen_ argument supplied to
the call should be initialized as above. Upon return, the
argument is set to indicate the _actual_ size of the address
structure. The caller should check the value returned in this
argument: if the output value exceeds the input value, then there
is no guarantee that a null terminator is present in _sunpath_.
(See BUGS.)Pathname socket ownership and permissions In the Linux implementation, pathname sockets honor the permissions of the directory they are in. Creation of a new socket fails if the process does not have write and search (execute) permission on the directory in which the socket is created.
On Linux, connecting to a stream socket object requires write
permission on that socket; sending a datagram to a datagram socket
likewise requires write permission on that socket. POSIX does not
make any statement about the effect of the permissions on a socket
file, and on some systems (e.g., older BSDs), the socket
permissions are ignored. Portable programs should not rely on
this feature for security.
When creating a new socket, the owner and group of the socket file
are set according to the usual rules. The socket file has all
permissions enabled, other than those that are turned off by the
process [umask(2)](../man2/umask.2.html).
The owner, group, and permissions of a pathname socket can be
changed (using [chown(2)](../man2/chown.2.html) and [chmod(2)](../man2/chmod.2.html)).Abstract sockets Socket permissions have no meaning for abstract sockets: the process umask(2) has no effect when binding an abstract socket, and changing the ownership and permissions of the object (via fchown(2) and fchmod(2)) has no effect on the accessibility of the socket.
Abstract sockets automatically disappear when all open references
to the socket are closed.
The abstract socket namespace is a nonportable Linux extension.Socket options For historical reasons, these socket options are specified with a SOL_SOCKET type even though they are AF_UNIX specific. They can be set with setsockopt(2) and read with getsockopt(2) by specifying SOL_SOCKET as the socket family.
**SO_PASSCRED**
Enabling this socket option causes receipt of the
credentials of the sending process in an **SCM_CREDENTIALS**
**ancillary** message in each subsequently received message.
The returned credentials are those specified by the sender
using **SCM_CREDENTIALS**, or a default that includes the
sender's PID, real user ID, and real group ID, if the
sender did not specify **SCM_CREDENTIALS** ancillary data.
When this option is set and the socket is not yet
connected, a unique name in the abstract namespace will be
generated automatically.
The value given as an argument to [setsockopt(2)](../man2/setsockopt.2.html) and
returned as the result of [getsockopt(2)](../man2/getsockopt.2.html) is an integer
boolean flag.
**SO_PASSSEC**
Enables receiving of the SELinux security label of the peer
socket in an ancillary message of type **SCM_SECURITY** (see
below).
The value given as an argument to [setsockopt(2)](../man2/setsockopt.2.html) and
returned as the result of [getsockopt(2)](../man2/getsockopt.2.html) is an integer
boolean flag.
The **SO_PASSSEC** option is supported for UNIX domain datagram
sockets since Linux 2.6.18; support for UNIX domain stream
sockets was added in Linux 4.2.
**SO_PEEK_OFF**
See [socket(7)](../man7/socket.7.html).
**SO_PEERCRED**
This read-only socket option returns the credentials of the
peer process connected to this socket. The returned
credentials are those that were in effect at the time of
the call to [connect(2)](../man2/connect.2.html), [listen(2)](../man2/listen.2.html), or [socketpair(2)](../man2/socketpair.2.html).
The argument to [getsockopt(2)](../man2/getsockopt.2.html) is a pointer to a _ucred_
structure; define the **_GNU_SOURCE** feature test macro to
obtain the definition of that structure from
_<sys/socket.h>_.
The use of this option is possible only for connected
**AF_UNIX** stream sockets and for **AF_UNIX** stream and datagram
socket pairs created using [socketpair(2)](../man2/socketpair.2.html).
**SO_PEERSEC**
This read-only socket option returns the security context
of the peer socket connected to this socket. By default,
this will be the same as the security context of the
process that created the peer socket unless overridden by
the policy or by a process with the required permissions.
The argument to [getsockopt(2)](../man2/getsockopt.2.html) is a pointer to a buffer of
the specified length in bytes into which the security
context string will be copied. If the buffer length is
less than the length of the security context string, then
[getsockopt(2)](../man2/getsockopt.2.html) returns -1, sets _[errno](../man3/errno.3.html)_ to **ERANGE**, and returns
the required length via _optlen_. The caller should allocate
at least **NAME_MAX** bytes for the buffer initially, although
this is not guaranteed to be sufficient. Resizing the
buffer to the returned length and retrying may be
necessary.
The security context string may include a terminating null
character in the returned length, but is not guaranteed to
do so: a security context "foo" might be represented as
either {'f','o','o'} of length 3 or {'f','o','o','\0'} of
length 4, which are considered to be interchangeable. The
string is printable, does not contain non-terminating null
characters, and is in an unspecified encoding (in
particular, it is not guaranteed to be ASCII or UTF-8).
The use of this option for sockets in the **AF_UNIX** address
family is supported since Linux 2.6.2 for connected stream
sockets, and since Linux 4.18 also for stream and datagram
socket pairs created using [socketpair(2)](../man2/socketpair.2.html).Autobind feature If a bind(2) call specifies addrlen as sizeof(safamilyt), or the SO_PASSCRED socket option was specified for a socket that was not explicitly bound to an address, then the socket is autobound to an abstract address. The address consists of a null byte followed by 5 bytes in the character set [0-9a-f]. Thus, there is a limit of 2^20 autobind addresses. (From Linux 2.1.15, when the autobind feature was added, 8 bytes were used, and the limit was thus 2^32 autobind addresses. The change to 5 bytes came in Linux 2.3.15.)
Sockets API The following paragraphs describe domain-specific details and unsupported features of the sockets API for UNIX domain sockets on Linux.
UNIX domain sockets do not support the transmission of out-of-band
data (the **MSG_OOB** flag for [send(2)](../man2/send.2.html) and [recv(2)](../man2/recv.2.html)).
The [send(2)](../man2/send.2.html) **MSG_MORE** flag is not supported by UNIX domain sockets.
Before Linux 3.4, the use of **MSG_TRUNC** in the _flags_ argument of
[recv(2)](../man2/recv.2.html) was not supported by UNIX domain sockets.
The **SO_SNDBUF** socket option does have an effect for UNIX domain
sockets, but the **SO_RCVBUF** option does not. For datagram sockets,
the **SO_SNDBUF** value imposes an upper limit on the size of outgoing
datagrams. This limit is calculated as the doubled (see
[socket(7)](../man7/socket.7.html)) option value less 32 bytes used for overhead.Ancillary messages Ancillary data is sent and received using sendmsg(2) and recvmsg(2). For historical reasons, the ancillary message types listed below are specified with a SOL_SOCKET type even though they are AF_UNIX specific. To send them, set the cmsglevel field of the struct cmsghdr to SOL_SOCKET and the cmsgtype field to the type. For more information, see cmsg(3).
**SCM_RIGHTS**
Send or receive a set of open file descriptors from another
process. The data portion contains an integer array of the
file descriptors.
Commonly, this operation is referred to as "passing a file
descriptor" to another process. However, more accurately,
what is being passed is a reference to an open file
description (see [open(2)](../man2/open.2.html)), and in the receiving process it
is likely that a different file descriptor number will be
used. Semantically, this operation is equivalent to
duplicating ([dup(2)](../man2/dup.2.html)) a file descriptor into the file
descriptor table of another process.
If the buffer used to receive the ancillary data containing
file descriptors is too small (or is absent), then the
ancillary data is truncated (or discarded) and the excess
file descriptors are automatically closed in the receiving
process.
If the number of file descriptors received in the ancillary
data would cause the process to exceed its **RLIMIT_NOFILE**
resource limit (see [getrlimit(2)](../man2/getrlimit.2.html)), the excess file
descriptors are automatically closed in the receiving
process.
The kernel constant **SCM_MAX_FD** defines a limit on the
number of file descriptors in the array. Attempting to
send an array larger than this limit causes [sendmsg(2)](../man2/sendmsg.2.html) to
fail with the error **EINVAL**. **SCM_MAX_FD** has the value 253
(or 255 before Linux 2.6.38).
**SCM_CREDENTIALS**
Send or receive UNIX credentials. This can be used for
authentication. The credentials are passed as a _struct_
_ucred_ ancillary message. This structure is defined in
_<sys/socket.h>_ as follows:
struct ucred {
pid_t pid; /* Process ID of the sending process */
uid_t uid; /* User ID of the sending process */
gid_t gid; /* Group ID of the sending process */
};
Since glibc 2.8, the **_GNU_SOURCE** feature test macro must be
defined (before including _any_ header files) in order to
obtain the definition of this structure.
The credentials which the sender specifies are checked by
the kernel. A privileged process is allowed to specify
values that do not match its own. The sender must specify
its own process ID (unless it has the capability
**CAP_SYS_ADMIN**, in which case the PID of any existing
process may be specified), its real user ID, effective user
ID, or saved set-user-ID (unless it has **CAP_SETUID**), and
its real group ID, effective group ID, or saved set-group-
ID (unless it has **CAP_SETGID**).
To receive a _struct ucred_ message, the **SO_PASSCRED** option
must be enabled on the socket.
**SCM_SECURITY**
Receive the SELinux security context (the security label)
of the peer socket. The received ancillary data is a null-
terminated string containing the security context. The
receiver should allocate at least **NAME_MAX** bytes in the
data portion of the ancillary message for this data.
To receive the security context, the **SO_PASSSEC** option must
be enabled on the socket (see above).
When sending ancillary data with [sendmsg(2)](../man2/sendmsg.2.html), only one item of each
of the above types may be included in the sent message.
At least one byte of real data should be sent when sending
ancillary data. On Linux, this is required to successfully send
ancillary data over a UNIX domain stream socket. When sending
ancillary data over a UNIX domain datagram socket, it is not
necessary on Linux to send any accompanying real data. However,
portable applications should also include at least one byte of
real data when sending ancillary data over a datagram socket.
When receiving from a stream socket, ancillary data forms a kind
of barrier for the received data. For example, suppose that the
sender transmits as follows:
(1) [sendmsg(2)](../man2/sendmsg.2.html) of four bytes, with no ancillary data.
(2) [sendmsg(2)](../man2/sendmsg.2.html) of one byte, with ancillary data.
(3) [sendmsg(2)](../man2/sendmsg.2.html) of four bytes, with no ancillary data.
Suppose that the receiver now performs [recvmsg(2)](../man2/recvmsg.2.html) calls each with
a buffer size of 20 bytes. The first call will receive five bytes
of data, along with the ancillary data sent by the second
[sendmsg(2)](../man2/sendmsg.2.html) call. The next call will receive the remaining four
bytes of data.
If the space allocated for receiving incoming ancillary data is
too small then the ancillary data is truncated to the number of
headers that will fit in the supplied buffer (or, in the case of
an **SCM_RIGHTS** file descriptor list, the list of file descriptors
may be truncated). If no buffer is provided for incoming
ancillary data (i.e., the _msgcontrol_ field of the _msghdr_
structure supplied to [recvmsg(2)](../man2/recvmsg.2.html) is NULL), then the incoming
ancillary data is discarded. In both of these cases, the
**MSG_CTRUNC** flag will be set in the _msg.msgflags_ value returned by
[recvmsg(2)](../man2/recvmsg.2.html).Ioctls The following ioctl(2) calls return information in value. The correct syntax is:
**int** _value_**;**
_error_ **= ioctl(**_unixsocket_**,** _ioctltype_**, &**_value_**);**
_ioctltype_ can be:
**SIOCINQ**
For **SOCK_STREAM** sockets, this call returns the number of
unread bytes in the receive buffer. The socket must not be
in LISTEN state, otherwise an error (**EINVAL**) is returned.
**SIOCINQ** is defined in _<linux/sockios.h>_. Alternatively,
you can use the synonymous **FIONREAD**, defined in
_<sys/ioctl.h>_. For **SOCK_DGRAM** sockets, the returned value
is the same as for Internet domain datagram sockets; see
[udp(7)](../man7/udp.7.html).ERRORS top
**EADDRINUSE**
The specified local address is already in use or the
filesystem socket object already exists.
**EBADF** This error can occur for [sendmsg(2)](../man2/sendmsg.2.html) when sending a file
descriptor as ancillary data over a UNIX domain socket (see
the description of **SCM_RIGHTS**, above), and indicates that
the file descriptor number that is being sent is not valid
(e.g., it is not an open file descriptor).
**ECONNREFUSED**
The remote address specified by [connect(2)](../man2/connect.2.html) was not a
listening socket. This error can also occur if the target
pathname is not a socket.
**ECONNRESET**
Remote socket was unexpectedly closed.
**EFAULT** User memory address was not valid.
**EINVAL** Invalid argument passed. A common cause is that the value
**AF_UNIX** was not specified in the _suntype_ field of passed
addresses, or the socket was in an invalid state for the
applied operation.
**EISCONN**
[connect(2)](../man2/connect.2.html) called on an already connected socket or a
target address was specified on a connected socket.
**ENFILE** The system-wide limit on the total number of open files has
been reached.
**ENOENT** The pathname in the remote address specified to [connect(2)](../man2/connect.2.html)
did not exist.
**ENOMEM** Out of memory.
**ENOTCONN**
Socket operation needs a target address, but the socket is
not connected.
**EOPNOTSUPP**
Stream operation called on non-stream oriented socket or
tried to use the out-of-band data option.
**EPERM** The sender passed invalid credentials in the _struct ucred_.
**EPIPE** Remote socket was closed on a stream socket. If enabled, a
**SIGPIPE** is sent as well. This can be avoided by passing
the **MSG_NOSIGNAL** flag to [send(2)](../man2/send.2.html) or [sendmsg(2)](../man2/sendmsg.2.html).
**EPROTONOSUPPORT**
Passed protocol is not **AF_UNIX**.
**EPROTOTYPE**
Remote socket does not match the local socket type
(**SOCK_DGRAM** versus **SOCK_STREAM**).
**ESOCKTNOSUPPORT**
Unknown socket type.
**ESRCH** While sending an ancillary message containing credentials
(**SCM_CREDENTIALS**), the caller specified a PID that does not
match any existing process.
**ETOOMANYREFS**
This error can occur for [sendmsg(2)](../man2/sendmsg.2.html) when sending a file
descriptor as ancillary data over a UNIX domain socket (see
the description of **SCM_RIGHTS**, above). It occurs if the
number of "in-flight" file descriptors exceeds the
**RLIMIT_NOFILE** resource limit and the caller does not have
the **CAP_SYS_RESOURCE** capability. An in-flight file
descriptor is one that has been sent using [sendmsg(2)](../man2/sendmsg.2.html) but
has not yet been accepted in the recipient process using
[recvmsg(2)](../man2/recvmsg.2.html).
This error is diagnosed since mainline Linux 4.5 (and in
some earlier kernel versions where the fix has been
backported). In earlier kernel versions, it was possible
to place an unlimited number of file descriptors in flight,
by sending each file descriptor with [sendmsg(2)](../man2/sendmsg.2.html) and then
closing the file descriptor so that it was not accounted
against the **RLIMIT_NOFILE** resource limit.
Other errors can be generated by the generic socket layer or by
the filesystem while generating a filesystem socket object. See
the appropriate manual pages for more information.VERSIONS top
**SCM_CREDENTIALS** and the abstract namespace were introduced with
Linux 2.2 and should not be used in portable programs. (Some BSD-
derived systems also support credential passing, but the
implementation details differ.)NOTES top
Binding to a socket with a filename creates a socket in the
filesystem that must be deleted by the caller when it is no longer
needed (using [unlink(2)](../man2/unlink.2.html)). The usual UNIX close-behind semantics
apply; the socket can be unlinked at any time and will be finally
removed from the filesystem when the last reference to it is
closed.
To pass file descriptors or credentials over a **SOCK_STREAM** socket,
you must send or receive at least one byte of nonancillary data in
the same [sendmsg(2)](../man2/sendmsg.2.html) or [recvmsg(2)](../man2/recvmsg.2.html) call.
UNIX domain stream sockets do not support the notion of out-of-
band data.BUGS top
When binding a socket to an address, Linux is one of the
implementations that append a null terminator if none is supplied
in _sunpath_. In most cases this is unproblematic: when the socket
address is retrieved, it will be one byte longer than that
supplied when the socket was bound. However, there is one case
where confusing behavior can result: if 108 non-null bytes are
supplied when a socket is bound, then the addition of the null
terminator takes the length of the pathname beyond
_sizeof(sunpath)_. Consequently, when retrieving the socket
address (for example, via [accept(2)](../man2/accept.2.html)), if the input _addrlen_
argument for the retrieving call is specified as _sizeof(struct_
_sockaddrun)_, then the returned address structure _won't_ have a
null terminator in _sunpath_.
In addition, some implementations don't require a null terminator
when binding a socket (the _addrlen_ argument is used to determine
the length of _sunpath_) and when the socket address is retrieved
on these implementations, there is no null terminator in _sunpath_.
Applications that retrieve socket addresses can (portably) code to
handle the possibility that there is no null terminator in
_sunpath_ by respecting the fact that the number of valid bytes in
the pathname is:
strnlen(addr.sun_path, addrlen - offsetof(sockaddr_un, sun_path))
Alternatively, an application can retrieve the socket address by
allocating a buffer of size _sizeof(struct sockaddrun)+1_ that is
zeroed out before the retrieval. The retrieving call can specify
_addrlen_ as _sizeof(struct sockaddrun)_, and the extra zero byte
ensures that there will be a null terminator for the string
returned in _sunpath_:
void *addrp;
addrlen = sizeof(struct sockaddr_un);
addrp = malloc(addrlen + 1);
if (addrp == NULL)
/* Handle error */ ;
memset(addrp, 0, addrlen + 1);
if (getsockname(sfd, (struct sockaddr *) addrp, &addrlen)) == -1)
/* handle error */ ;
printf("sun_path = %s\n", ((struct sockaddr_un *) addrp)->sun_path);
This sort of messiness can be avoided if it is guaranteed that the
applications that _create_ pathname sockets follow the rules
outlined above under _Pathname sockets_.EXAMPLES top
The following code demonstrates the use of sequenced-packet
sockets for local interprocess communication. It consists of two
programs. The server program waits for a connection from the
client program. The client sends each of its command-line
arguments in separate messages. The server treats the incoming
messages as integers and adds them up. The client sends the
command string "END". The server sends back a message containing
the sum of the client's integers. The client prints the sum and
exits. The server waits for the next client to connect. To stop
the server, the client is called with the command-line argument
"DOWN".
The following output was recorded while running the server in the
background and repeatedly executing the client. Execution of the
server program ends when it receives the "DOWN" command.Example output $ ./server & [1] 25887 $ ./client 3 4; Result = 7 $ ./client 11 -5; Result = 6 $ ./client DOWN; Result = 0 [1]+ Done ./server $
Program source
/*
* File connection.h
*/
#ifndef CONNECTION_H
#define CONNECTION_H
#define SOCKET_NAME "/tmp/9Lq7BNBnBycd6nxy.socket"
#define BUFFER_SIZE 12
#endif // include guard
/*
* File server.c
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/un.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include "connection.h"
int
main(void)
{
int down_flag = 0;
int ret;
int connection_socket;
int data_socket;
int result;
ssize_t r, w;
struct sockaddr_un name;
char buffer[BUFFER_SIZE];
/* Create local socket. */
connection_socket = socket(AF_UNIX, SOCK_SEQPACKET, 0);
if (connection_socket == -1) {
perror("socket");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
/*
* For portability clear the whole structure, since some
* implementations have additional (nonstandard) fields in
* the structure.
*/
memset(&name, 0, sizeof(name));
/* Bind socket to socket name. */
name.sun_family = AF_UNIX;
strncpy(name.sun_path, SOCKET_NAME, sizeof(name.sun_path) - 1);
ret = bind(connection_socket, (const struct sockaddr *) &name,
sizeof(name));
if (ret == -1) {
perror("bind");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
/*
* Prepare for accepting connections. The backlog size is set
* to 20. So while one request is being processed other requests
* can be waiting.
*/
ret = listen(connection_socket, 20);
if (ret == -1) {
perror("listen");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
/* This is the main loop for handling connections. */
for (;;) {
/* Wait for incoming connection. */
data_socket = accept(connection_socket, NULL, NULL);
if (data_socket == -1) {
perror("accept");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
result = 0;
for (;;) {
/* Wait for next data packet. */
r = read(data_socket, buffer, sizeof(buffer));
if (r == -1) {
perror("read");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
/* Ensure buffer is 0-terminated. */
buffer[sizeof(buffer) - 1] = 0;
/* Handle commands. */
if (!strncmp(buffer, "DOWN", sizeof(buffer))) {
down_flag = 1;
continue;
}
if (!strncmp(buffer, "END", sizeof(buffer))) {
break;
}
if (down_flag) {
continue;
}
/* Add received summand. */
result += atoi(buffer);
}
/* Send result. */
sprintf(buffer, "%d", result);
w = write(data_socket, buffer, sizeof(buffer));
if (w == -1) {
perror("write");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
/* Close socket. */
close(data_socket);
/* Quit on DOWN command. */
if (down_flag) {
break;
}
}
close(connection_socket);
/* Unlink the socket. */
unlink(SOCKET_NAME);
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}
/*
* File client.c
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/un.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include "connection.h"
int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int ret;
int data_socket;
ssize_t r, w;
struct sockaddr_un addr;
char buffer[BUFFER_SIZE];
/* Create local socket. */
data_socket = socket(AF_UNIX, SOCK_SEQPACKET, 0);
if (data_socket == -1) {
perror("socket");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
/*
* For portability clear the whole structure, since some
* implementations have additional (nonstandard) fields in
* the structure.
*/
memset(&addr, 0, sizeof(addr));
/* Connect socket to socket address. */
addr.sun_family = AF_UNIX;
strncpy(addr.sun_path, SOCKET_NAME, sizeof(addr.sun_path) - 1);
ret = connect(data_socket, (const struct sockaddr *) &addr,
sizeof(addr));
if (ret == -1) {
fprintf(stderr, "The server is down.\n");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
/* Send arguments. */
for (int i = 1; i < argc; ++i) {
w = write(data_socket, argv[i], strlen(argv[i]) + 1);
if (w == -1) {
perror("write");
break;
}
}
/* Request result. */
strcpy(buffer, "END");
w = write(data_socket, buffer, strlen(buffer) + 1);
if (w == -1) {
perror("write");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
/* Receive result. */
r = read(data_socket, buffer, sizeof(buffer));
if (r == -1) {
perror("read");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
/* Ensure buffer is 0-terminated. */
buffer[sizeof(buffer) - 1] = 0;
printf("Result = %s\n", buffer);
/* Close socket. */
close(data_socket);
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}
For examples of the use of **SCM_RIGHTS**, see [cmsg(3)](../man3/cmsg.3.html) and
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[recvmsg(2)](../man2/recvmsg.2.html), [sendmsg(2)](../man2/sendmsg.2.html), [socket(2)](../man2/socket.2.html), [socketpair(2)](../man2/socketpair.2.html), [cmsg(3)](../man3/cmsg.3.html),
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