listen和accept的套接字描述符有什么用

在阅读创建socketpair时发现不太理解socket中listen和accept函数的功能和差别，看了下面的描述，明白了。

 

When a SYN arrives from a client, TCP creates a new entry on the incomplete queue and then responds with the second segment of the three-way handshake: the server's SYN with an ACK of the client's SYN (Section 2.6). This entry will remain on the incomplete queue until the third segment of the three-way handshake arrives (the client's ACK of the server's SYN), or until the entry times out. (Berkeley-derived implementations have a timeout of 75 seconds for these incomplete entries.) If the three-way handshake completes normally, the entry moves from the incomplete queue to the end of the completed queue. When the process calls accept, which we will describe in the next section, the first entry on the completed queue is returned to the process, or if the queue is empty, the process is put to sleep until an entry is placed onto the completed queue.

There are several points to consider regarding the handling of these two queues.

The backlog argument to the listen function has historically specified the maximum value for the sum of both queues.