Accept

Accept a connection from a socket (deprecated).

Declaration

Source position: socketsh.inc line 179

Description

Accept accepts a connection from a socket Sock, which was listening for a connection. If a connection is accepted, a file descriptor is returned. On error -1 is returned. The returned socket may NOT be used to accept more connections. The original socket remains open.

The Accept call fills the address of the connecting entity in Addr, and sets its length in Addrlen. Addr should be pointing to enough space, and Addrlen should be set to the amount of space available, prior to the call.

The alternate forms of the Accept command, with the Text or File parameters are equivalent to subsequently calling the regular Accept function and the Sock2Text or Sock2File functions. These functions return True if successful, False otherwise.

Errors

On error, -1 is returned, and errors are reported in SocketError, and include the following:

ESockEBADF

The socket descriptor is invalid.

ESockENOTSOCK

The descriptor is not a socket.

SYS_EOPNOTSUPP

The socket type doesn't support the Listen operation.

ESockEFAULT

Addr points outside your address space.

ESockEWOULDBLOCK

The requested operation would block the process.

See also

Example

Program server;

{$mode objfpc}
{$h+}

{
  Program to test Sockets unit by Michael van Canneyt and Peter Vreman
  Server Version, First Run sock_svr to let it create a socket and then
  sock_cli to connect to that socket
}
uses Sockets;

Var
  FromName : string;
  Buffer   : string;
  S,fd    : Longint;
  len : longword;
  SAddr,SRemote : TInetSockAddr;

procedure perror (const Msg:string);
begin
  writeln (Msg,': ',SocketError);
  halt(100);
end;

procedure endnst msg : string);

begin
  fpSend(fd,@msg[1],length(msg),0);
end;

function Receive(var S : string) : boolean;

var
  nRead : integer;

begin
  SetLength(S,255);
  nRead:=fpRecv(fd,@S[1],255,0);
  Result:=nRead>0;
  if Result then
    SetLength(S,nRead)
  else
    SetLength(S,0);  
end;


begin
  S:=fpSocket (AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,0);
  if SocketError<>0 then
   Perror ('Server : Socket : ');
  SAddr.inamily:=AF_INET;
  { port 5000 in network order }
  SAddr.inort:=htons(5000);
  SAddr.inddr.s_addr:=0;
  if fpBind(S,@SAddr,sizeof(saddr))=-1 then
   PError ('Server : Bind : ');
  if fpListen (S,1)=-1 then
   PError ('Server : Listen : ');
  Writeln('Waiting for Connect from Client, run now sock_cli in an other tty');
  len:=sizeof(SRemote);
  fd:=fpAccept(S, @SRemote,@len);
  if fd=-1 then
    PError ('Server : Accepting connection')
  else
    begin 
    endessage From Server');
    while Receive(Buffer) do
      begin
      Writeln('Server : read : ',Buffer);
      end;
    fpShutdown(fd,2);
    end;  
  CloseSocket(s);
end.