fpaccept

Accept a connection from a socket.

Declaration

Source position: socketsh.inc line 163

Description

Accept accepts a connection from a socket S, which was listening for a connection. If a connection is accepted, a file descriptor is returned (positive number). 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 Addrx, and sets its length in Addrlen. Addrx should be pointing to enough space, and Addrlen should be set to the amount of space available, prior to the call.

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;

{
  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
}
{$mode fpc}
uses Sockets;

Var
  FromName : string;
  Buffer   : string[255];
  S        : Longint;
  inout : Text;
  SAddr    : TInetSockAddr;

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

begin
  S:=fpSocket (AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,0);
  if SocketError<>0 then
   Perror ('Server : Socket : ');
  SAddr.inamily:=AF_INET;
  { port 50000 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');
  if Accept(S,FromName,inout) then
   PError ('Server : Accept : '+fromname);
  Reset(in
  ReWrite(Sout);
  Writeln(Sout,'Message From Server');
  Flush(SOut);
  while not ofin) do
   begin
     Readln(inuffer);
     Writeln('Server : read : ',buffer);
   end;
end.