fplisten

Listen for connections on a socket.

Declaration

Source position: socketsh.inc line 162

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