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32 .Nd initiate a connection on a socket
41 .Fn connectat "int fd" "int s" "const struct sockaddr *name" "socklen_t namelen"
45 system call initiates a connection on the socket
47 When passed the special value
51 parameter, the behavior is identical to a call to
57 system call with two exceptions:
59 .Bl -enum -offset indent -compact
61 It is limited to sockets in the PF_LOCAL domain.
64 If the file path stored in the
66 field of the sockaddr_un structure is a relative path, it is located relative
67 to the directory associated with the file descriptor
75 system call may fail with the same errors as the
77 system call or with the following errors:
82 field does not specify an absolute path and the
86 nor a valid file descriptor.
90 field is not an absolute path and
94 nor a file descriptor associated with a directory.
105 .An Pawel Jakub Dawidek Aq Mt pawel@dawidek.net
106 under sponsorship from the FreeBSD Foundation.