.\"
.\" @(#)accept.2 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93
.\"
-.Dd December 11, 1993
+.Dd March 18, 2015
.Dt ACCEPT 2
.Os BSD 4.2
.Sh NAME
.Nm accept
.Nd accept a connection on a socket
.Sh SYNOPSIS
-.Fd #include <sys/types.h>
.Fd #include <sys/socket.h>
.Ft int
-.Fn accept "int s" "struct sockaddr *addr" "socklen_t *addrlen"
+.Fo accept
+.Fa "int socket"
+.Fa "struct sockaddr *restrict address"
+.Fa "socklen_t *restrict address_len"
+.Fc
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The argument
-.Fa s
+.Fa socket
is a socket that has been created with
.Xr socket 2 ,
bound to an address with
.Xr bind 2 ,
and is listening for connections after a
.Xr listen 2 .
-The
.Fn accept
-argument
extracts the first connection request
on the queue of pending connections, creates
a new socket with the same properties of
-.Fa s
+.Fa socket ,
and allocates a new file descriptor
for the socket. If no pending connections are
present on the queue, and the socket is not marked
The accepted socket
may not be used
to accept more connections. The original socket
-.Fa s
+.Fa socket,
remains open.
.Pp
The argument
-.Fa addr
+.Fa address
is a result parameter that is filled in with
the address of the connecting entity,
as known to the communications layer.
The exact format of the
-.Fa addr
+.Fa address
parameter is determined by the domain in which the communication
is occurring.
The
-.Fa addrlen
+.Fa address_len
is a value-result parameter; it should initially contain the
amount of space pointed to by
-.Fa addr ;
+.Fa address ;
on return it will contain the actual length (in bytes) of the
address returned.
This call
or by calling
.Xr setsockopt 2 .
.Sh RETURN VALUES
-The call returns \-1 on error. If it succeeds, it returns a non-negative
-integer that is a descriptor for the accepted socket.
+The call returns \-1 on error and the global variable
+.Va errno
+is set to indicate the error.
+If it succeeds, it returns a non-negative integer
+that is a descriptor for the accepted socket.
.Sh ERRORS
The
.Fn accept
-will fail if:
+system call will fail if:
.Bl -tag -width Er
+.\" ==========
.It Bq Er EBADF
-The descriptor is invalid.
-.It Bq Er ENOTSOCK
-The descriptor references a file, not a socket.
-.It Bq Er EOPNOTSUPP
-The referenced socket is not of type
-.Dv SOCK_STREAM .
+.Fa socket
+is not a valid file descriptor.
+.\" ==========
+.It Bq Er ECONNABORTED
+The connection to
+.Fa socket
+has been aborted.
+.\" ==========
.It Bq Er EFAULT
The
-.Fa addr
+.Fa address
parameter is not in a writable part of the
user address space.
-.It Bq Er EWOULDBLOCK
-The socket is marked non-blocking and no connections
-are present to be accepted.
+.\" ==========
+.It Bq Er EINTR
+The
+.Fn accept
+system call was terminated by a signal.
+.\" ==========
+.It Bq Er EINVAL
+.Fa socket
+is unwilling to accept connections.
+.\" ==========
.It Bq Er EMFILE
The per-process descriptor table is full.
+.\" ==========
.It Bq Er ENFILE
The system file table is full.
+.\" ==========
+.It Bq Er ENOMEM
+Insufficient memory was available to complete the operation.
+.\" ==========
+.It Bq Er ENOTSOCK
+.Fa socket
+references a file type other than a socket.
+.\" ==========
+.It Bq Er EOPNOTSUPP
+.Fa socket
+is not of type
+.Dv SOCK_STREAM
+and thus does not accept connections.
+.\" ==========
+.It Bq Er EWOULDBLOCK
+.Fa socket
+is marked as non-blocking and no connections are present to be accepted.
.El
+.Sh LEGACY SYNOPSIS
+.Fd #include <sys/types.h>
+.Fd #include <sys/socket.h>
+.Pp
+The include file
+.In sys/types.h
+is necessary.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr bind 2 ,
.Xr connect 2 ,
+.Xr connectx 2 ,
.Xr listen 2 ,
.Xr select 2 ,
-.Xr socket 2
+.Xr socket 2 ,
+.Xr compat 5
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Fn accept
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