SOCKETCALL(2)                                       Linux Programmer's Manual                                      SOCKETCALL(2)



NAME
       socketcall - socket system calls

SYNOPSIS
       int socketcall(int call, unsigned long *args);

DESCRIPTION
       socketcall()  is  a  common  kernel  entry  point  for the socket system calls.  call determines which socket function to
       invoke.  args points to a block containing the actual arguments, which are passed through to the appropriate call.

       User programs should call the appropriate functions by their usual names.  Only standard library implementors and  kernel
       hackers need to know about socketcall().

CONFORMING TO
       This call is specific to Linux, and should not be used in programs intended to be portable.

NOTES
       On  a  few  architectures, for example ia64, there is no socketcall() system call; instead socket(2), accept(2), bind(2),
       and so on really are implemented as separate system calls.

SEE ALSO
       accept(2),  bind(2),  connect(2),  getpeername(2),  getsockname(2),  getsockopt(2),  listen(2),   recv(2),   recvfrom(2),
       recvmsg(2), send(2), sendmsg(2), sendto(2), setsockopt(2), shutdown(2), socket(2), socketpair(2)

COLOPHON
       This  page  is  part of release 3.25 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project, and information about
       reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.



Linux                                                      2007-06-28                                              SOCKETCALL(2)