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fplisten function

In unit Sockets

Listen for connections on a socket.

Declaration

pascal
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

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