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RECVMSG(3P) POSIX Programmer's ManualRECVMSG(3P)This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface may not be implemented on Linux.
recvmsg — receive a message from a socket
#include <sys/socket.h> ssize_t recvmsg(intsocket, struct msghdr *message, intflags);
Therecvmsg() function shall receive a message from a connection- mode or connectionless-mode socket. It is normally used with connectionless-mode sockets because it permits the application to retrieve the source address of received data. Therecvmsg() function takes the following arguments:socket Specifies the socket file descriptor.message Points to amsghdrstructure, containing both the buffer to store the source address and the buffers for the incoming message. The length and format of the address depend on the address family of the socket. Themsg_flags member is ignored on input, but may contain meaningful values on output.flags Specifies the type of message reception. Values of this argument are formed by logically OR'ing zero or more of the following values: MSG_OOB Requests out-of-band data. The significance and semantics of out-of-band data are protocol-specific. MSG_PEEK Peeks at the incoming message. MSG_WAITALL On SOCK_STREAM sockets this requests that the function block until the full amount of data can be returned. The function may return the smaller amount of data if the socket is a message-based socket, if a signal is caught, if the connection is terminated, if MSG_PEEK was specified, or if an error is pending for the socket. Therecvmsg() function shall receive messages from unconnected or connected sockets and shall return the length of the message. Therecvmsg() function shall return the total length of the message. For message-based sockets, such as SOCK_DGRAM and SOCK_SEQPACKET, the entire message shall be read in a single operation. If a message is too long to fit in the supplied buffers, and MSG_PEEK is not set in theflags argument, the excess bytes shall be discarded, and MSG_TRUNC shall be set in themsg_flags member of themsghdrstructure. For stream-based sockets, such as SOCK_STREAM, message boundaries shall be ignored. In this case, data shall be returned to the user as soon as it becomes available, and no data shall be discarded. If the MSG_WAITALL flag is not set, data shall be returned only up to the end of the first message. If no messages are available at the socket and O_NONBLOCK is not set on the socket's file descriptor,recvmsg() shall block until a message arrives. If no messages are available at the socket and O_NONBLOCK is set on the socket's file descriptor, therecvmsg() function shall fail and seterrno to[EAGAIN]or[EWOULDBLOCK]. In themsghdrstructure, themsg_name member may be a null pointer if the source address is not required. Otherwise, if the socket is unconnected, themsg_name member points to asockaddrstructure in which the source address is to be stored, and themsg_namelen member on input specifies the length of the suppliedsockaddr structure and on output specifies the length of the stored address. If the actual length of the address is greater than the length of the suppliedsockaddrstructure, the stored address shall be truncated. If the socket is connected, themsg_name andmsg_namelen members shall be ignored. Themsg_iov andmsg_iovlen fields are used to specify where the received data shall be stored. Themsg_iov member points to an array ofiovec structures; themsg_iovlen member shall be set to the dimension of this array. In eachiovecstructure, theiov_base field specifies a storage area and theiov_len field gives its size in bytes. Each storage area indicated bymsg_iov is filled with received data in turn until all of the received data is stored or all of the areas have been filled. Upon successful completion, themsg_flags member of the message header shall be the bitwise-inclusive OR of all of the following flags that indicate conditions detected for the received message: MSG_EOR End-of-record was received (if supported by the protocol). MSG_OOB Out-of-band data was received. MSG_TRUNC Normal data was truncated. MSG_CTRUNC Control data was truncated.
Upon successful completion,recvmsg() shall return the length of the message in bytes. If no messages are available to be received and the peer has performed an orderly shutdown,recvmsg() shall return 0. Otherwise, -1 shall be returned anderrno set to indicate the error.
Therecvmsg() function shall fail if:EAGAINorEWOULDBLOCK The socket's file descriptor is marked O_NONBLOCK and no data is waiting to be received; or MSG_OOB is set and no out-of-band data is available and either the socket's file descriptor is marked O_NONBLOCK or the socket does not support blocking to await out-of-band data.EBADFThesocket argument is not a valid open file descriptor.ECONNRESET A connection was forcibly closed by a peer.EINTRThis function was interrupted by a signal before any data was available.EINVALThe sum of theiov_len values overflows assize_t, or the MSG_OOB flag is set and no out-of-band data is available.EMSGSIZE Themsg_iovlen member of themsghdrstructure pointed to bymessage is less than or equal to 0, or is greater than {IOV_MAX}.ENOTCONN A receive is attempted on a connection-mode socket that is not connected.ENOTSOCK Thesocket argument does not refer to a socket.EOPNOTSUPP The specified flags are not supported for this socket type.ETIMEDOUT The connection timed out during connection establishment, or due to a transmission timeout on active connection. Therecvmsg() function may fail if:EIOAn I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.ENOBUFS Insufficient resources were available in the system to perform the operation.ENOMEMInsufficient memory was available to fulfill the request.The following sections are informative.None.
Theselect() andpoll() functions can be used to determine when data is available to be received.
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poll(3p),pselect(3p),recv(3p),recvfrom(3p),send(3p),sendmsg(3p),sendto(3p),shutdown(3p),socket(3p) The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017,sys_socket.h(0p)
Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online athttp://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html . Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, seehttps://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .IEEE/The Open Group 2017RECVMSG(3P)Pages that refer to this page:sys_socket.h(0p), pselect(3p), recv(3p), recvfrom(3p), send(3p), sendmsg(3p), sendto(3p), shutdown(3p), sockatmark(3p), socket(3p)
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