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    fplisten

    Listen for connections on a socket.

    Declaration

    Source position: socketsh.inc line 165

    function fplisten(s: cint; backlog: cint) : cint;

    Description

    fpListen listens for up to backlog connections from socket S. The socket S must be of type SOCK_STREAM or Sock_SEQPACKET.

    The function returns 0 if a connection was accepted, -1 if an error occurred.

    Errors

    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.

    See also

    Name Description
    fpSocket Create new socket.
    fpBind Bind a socket to an address.
    fpConnect Open a connection to a server socket.