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.TH io_uring_prep_socket 3 "May 27, 2022" "liburing-2.2" "liburing Manual"
.SH NAME
io_uring_prep_socket \- prepare a socket creation request
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <sys/socket.h>
.B #include <liburing.h>
.PP
.BI "void io_uring_prep_socket(struct io_uring_sqe *" sqe ","
.BI "                          int " domain ","
.BI "                          int " type ","
.BI "                          int " protocol ","
.BI "                          unsigned int " flags ");"
.PP
.BI "void io_uring_prep_socket_direct(struct io_uring_sqe *" sqe ","
.BI "                                 int " domain ","
.BI "                                 int " type ","
.BI "                                 int " protocol ","
.BI "                                 unsigned int " file_index ","
.BI "                                 unsigned int " flags ");"
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
The
.BR io_uring_prep_socket (3)
function prepares a socket creation request. The submission queue entry
.I sqe
is setup to use the communication domain defined by
.I domain
and use the communication type defined by
.I type
and the protocol set by
.IR protocol .
The
.I flags
argument are currently unused.

The
.BR io_uring_prep_socket_direct (3)
works just like
.BR io_uring_prep_socket (3),
except it maps the socket to a direct descriptor rather than return a normal
file descriptor. The
.I file_index
argument should be set to the slot that should be used for this socket, or
.B IORING_FILE_INDEX_ALLOC
if io_uring should allocate a free one.

If the direct variant is used, the application must first have registered
a file table using
.BR io_uring_register_files (3)
of the appropriate size. Once registered, a direct socket request may use any
entry in that table, as long as it is within the size of the registered table.
If a specified entry already contains a file, the file will first be removed
from the table and closed. It's consistent with the behavior of updating an
existing file with
.BR io_uring_register_files_update (3).

For a direct descriptor socket request, the
.I file_index
argument can be set to
.BR IORING_FILE_INDEX_ALLOC ,
In this case a free entry in io_uring file table will
be used automatically and the file index will be returned as CQE
.IR res .
.B -ENFILE
is otherwise returned if there is no free entries in the io_uring file table.

These functions prepare an async
.BR socket (2)
request. See that man page for details.

.SH RETURN VALUE
None
.SH ERRORS
The CQE
.I res
field will contain the result of the operation. See the related man page for
details on possible values. Note that where synchronous system calls will return
.B -1
on failure and set
.I errno
to the actual error value, io_uring never uses
.IR errno .
Instead it returns the negated
.I errno
directly in the CQE
.I res
field.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR io_uring_get_sqe (3),
.BR io_uring_submit (3),
.BR socket (2)