Winsock API: accept

参考MSDN:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms737526(v=vs.85).aspx

The accept function permits an incoming connection attempt on a socket.

Syntax

SOCKET accept(
  _In_     SOCKET s,
  _Out_    struct sockaddr *addr,
  _Inout_  int *addrlen
);

Parameters

s [in]

A descriptor that identifies a socket that has been placed in a listening state with the listen function. The connection is actually made with the socket that is returned by accept.

addr [out]

An optional pointer to a buffer that receives the address of the connecting entity, as known to the communications layer. The exact format of the addr parameter is determined by the address family that was established when the socket from the sockaddr structure was created.

addrlen [in, out]

An optional pointer to an integer that contains the length of structure pointed to by the addr parameter.

Return value

If no error occurs, accept returns a value of type SOCKET that is a descriptor for the new socket. This returned value is a handle for the socket on which the actual connection is made.

Otherwise, a value of INVALID_SOCKET is returned, and a specific error code can be retrieved by calling WSAGetLastError.

The integer referred to by addrlen initially contains the amount of space pointed to by addr. On return it will contain the actual length in bytes of the address returned.

Remarks

The accept function extracts the first connection on the queue of pending connections on socket s. It then creates and returns a handle to the new socket. The newly created socket is the socket that will handle the actual connection; it has the same properties as socket s, including the asynchronous events registered with the WSAAsyncSelect or WSAEventSelect functions.

The accept function can block the caller until a connection is present if no pending connections are present on the queue, and the socket is marked as blocking. If the socket is marked as nonblocking and no pending connections are present on the queue, accept returns an error as described in the following. After the successful completion of accept returns a new socket handle, the accepted socket cannot be used to accept more connections. The original socket remains open and listens for new connection requests.

 

Example Code

The following example demonstrates the use of the accept function.

#ifndef UNICODE
#define UNICODE
#endif

#include <winsock2.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <windows.h>

// Need to link with Ws2_32.lib
#pragma comment(lib, "Ws2_32.lib")

int wmain(void)
{

    //----------------------
    // Initialize Winsock.
    WSADATA wsaData;
    int iResult = WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2, 2), &wsaData);
    if (iResult != NO_ERROR) {
        wprintf(L"WSAStartup failed with error: %ld\n", iResult);
        return 1;
    }
    //----------------------
    // Create a SOCKET for listening for
    // incoming connection requests.
    SOCKET ListenSocket;
    ListenSocket = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP);
    if (ListenSocket == INVALID_SOCKET) {
        wprintf(L"socket failed with error: %ld\n", WSAGetLastError());
        WSACleanup();
        return 1;
    }
    //----------------------
    // The sockaddr_in structure specifies the address family,
    // IP address, and port for the socket that is being bound.
    sockaddr_in service;
    service.sin_family = AF_INET;
    service.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("127.0.0.1");
    service.sin_port = htons(27015);

    if (bind(ListenSocket,
             (SOCKADDR *) & service, sizeof (service)) == SOCKET_ERROR) {
        wprintf(L"bind failed with error: %ld\n", WSAGetLastError());
        closesocket(ListenSocket);
        WSACleanup();
        return 1;
    }
    //----------------------
    // Listen for incoming connection requests.
    // on the created socket
    if (listen(ListenSocket, 1) == SOCKET_ERROR) {
        wprintf(L"listen failed with error: %ld\n", WSAGetLastError());
        closesocket(ListenSocket);
        WSACleanup();
        return 1;
    }
    //----------------------
    // Create a SOCKET for accepting incoming requests.
    SOCKET AcceptSocket;
    wprintf(L"Waiting for client to connect...\n");

    //----------------------
    // Accept the connection.
    AcceptSocket = accept(ListenSocket, NULL, NULL);
    if (AcceptSocket == INVALID_SOCKET) {
        wprintf(L"accept failed with error: %ld\n", WSAGetLastError());
        closesocket(ListenSocket);
        WSACleanup();
        return 1;
    } else
        wprintf(L"Client connected.\n");

    // No longer need server socket
    closesocket(ListenSocket);

    WSACleanup();
    return 0;
}