2.1 library(tipc/tipc): TIPC Sockets
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      • Transparent Inter-Process Communications (TIPC) libraries
        • The TIPC libraries: library(tipc/...)
          • library(tipc/tipc): TIPC Sockets
            • tipc_socket/2
            • tipc_close_socket/1
            • tipc_open_socket/3
            • tipc_bind/3
            • tipc_listen/2
            • tipc_accept/3
            • tipc_connect/2
            • tipc_get_name/2
            • tipc_get_peer_name/2
            • tipc_setopt/2
            • tipc_receive/4
            • tipc_send/4
            • tipc_canonical_address/2
            • tipc_service_exists/2
            • tipc_service_exists/1
            • tipc_service_probe/1
            • tipc_service_probe/2
            • tipc_service_port_monitor/2
            • tipc_service_port_monitor/3
            • tipc_initialize/0
Availability::- use_module(library(tipc/tipc)).
[det]tipc_close_socket(+SocketId)
Closes the indicated socket, making SocketId invalid. In stream applications, sockets are closed by closing both stream handles returned by tipc_open_socket/3. There are two cases where tipc_close_socket/1 is used because there are no stream-handles:

  • After tipc_accept/3, the server does a fork/1 to handle the client in a sub-process. In this case the accepted socket is not longer needed from the main server and must be discarded using tipc_close_socket/1.
  • If, after discovering the connecting client with tipc_accept/3, the server does not want to accept the connection, it should discard the accepted socket immediately using tipc_close_socket/1.
SocketId the socket identifier returned by tipc_socket/2 or tipc_accept/3.