sendmmsg()

Arguments:

s

The descriptor for the socket; see socket().

mmsg

A pointer to the array of messages that you want to send.

vlen

The length of the mmsg array; limited to 1024 elements.

flags

A bitwise OR of zero or more of the following:

• MSG_OOB — process out-of-band data. Use this bit when you send “out-of-band” data on sockets that support this notion (e.g., SOCK_STREAM). The underlying protocol must also support out-of-band data.
• MSG_DONTROUTE — bypass routing; create a direct interface. You normally use this bit only in diagnostic or routing programs.
• MSG_NOSIGNAL — don't raise a SIGPIPE signal when the other end breaks the connection.

Library:

libsocket

Use the -l socket option to qcc to link against this library.

Description:

The sendmmsg() function transmits multiple messages to another socket. You can use send() only when the socket is in a connected state; you can use sendmmsg() at any time.

You can use this function to send multiple messages in the same call using an array of mmsghdr elements with the following form, as defined in <sys/socket.h>:

struct mmsghdr {
    struct msghdr   msg_hdr; /* the message to be sent */
    unsigned int    msg_len; /* number of bytes transmitted */
};

The msg_len member contains the number of bytes sent for each msg_hdr member. The array has vlen elements, but if there's an error, a number fewer than vlen may be returned. For a description of the msghdr structure, see recvmsg().

No indication of failure to deliver is implicit in a sendmmsg(). Locally detected errors are indicated by a return value of -1.

If no message space is available at the socket to hold the message to be transmitted, then sendmmsg() normally blocks, unless the socket has been placed in nonblocking I/O mode. You can use select() to determine when it's possible to send more data.

Returns:

The number of messages sent, or -1 if an error occurs (errno is set).

Errors:

EACCES

Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix, or write access to the named socket is denied.

EAFNOSUPPORT

Addresses in the specified address family can't be used with this socket.

EAGAIN

The socket's file descriptor is marked O_NONBLOCK, and the requested operation would block.

EBADF

An invalid descriptor was specified.

ECONNRESET

A connection was forcibly closed by a peer.

EDESTADDRREQ

The socket isn't connection-mode and doesn't have its peer address set, and no destination address was specified.

EFAULT

An invalid user space address was specified for a parameter.

EHOSTUNREACH

The destination host can't be reached (probably because the host is down, or a remote router can't reach it).

EINTR

A signal interrupted sendmmsg() before any data was transmitted.

EINVAL

The sum of the iov_len values overflows an ssize_t.

EISCONN

A destination address was specified and the socket is already connected.

EMSGSIZE

The message is too large to be sent all at once (as the socket requires), or the msg_iovlen member of the msghdr structure pointed to by message is less than or equal to 0 or is greater than IOV_MAX.

ENETDOWN

The local network interface used to reach the destination is down.

ENETUNREACH

No route to the network is present.

ENOBUFS

The system couldn't allocate an internal buffer. The operation may succeed when buffers become available.

ENOMEM

Insufficient memory was available to fulfill the request.

ENOTCONN

The socket is connection-mode but isn't connected.

ENOTSOCK

The argument s isn't a socket.

EOPNOTSUPP

The s argument is associated with a socket that doesn't support one or more of the values set in flags.

EOVERFLOW

An attempt was made to send an amount of data that when added to the sizes of the socket send message and socket address length structures exceeds the allowable limit.

EPIPE

The socket is shut down for writing, or the socket is connection-mode and is no longer connected. In the latter case, and if the socket is of type SOCK_STREAM, a SIGPIPE signal is generated to the calling thread.

EWOULDBLOCK

The socket is marked nonblocking and the requested operation would block.

Classification:

Unix