NAME

t_connect - establish a connection with another transport user

SYNOPSIS

#include <xti.h>

int t_connect(
    int fd,
    const struct t_call *sndcall,
    struct t_call *rcvcall)

DESCRIPTION

Parameters
Before call
After call
fd
x
/
sndcall->
addr.maxlen
=
sndcall->
addr.len
x
sndcall->
addr.buf
x (x)
sndcall->
opt.maxlen
=
sndcall->
opt.len
x
sndcall->
opt.buf
x (x)
sndcall->
udata.maxlen
=
sndcall->
udata.len
x
sndcall->
udata.buf
? (?)
sndcall->
sequence
=
rcvcall->
addr.maxlen
x
rcvcall->
addr.len
/
rcvcall->
addr.buf
?
rcvcall->
opt.maxlen
x
rcvcall->
opt.len
/
rcvcall->
opt.buf
?
rcvcall->
udata.maxlen
x
rcvcall->
udata.len
/
rcvcall->
udata.buf
?
rcvcall->
sequence
=

This function enables a transport user to request a connection to the specified destination transport user. This function can only be issued in the T_IDLE state. The parameter fd identifies the local transport endpoint where communication will be established, while sndcall and rcvcall point to a t_call structure which contains the following members:

struct netbuf addr;
struct netbuf opt;
struct netbuf udata;
int sequence;

The parameter sndcall specifies information needed by the transport provider to establish a connection and rcvcall specifies information that is associated with the newly established connection.

In sndcall, addr specifies the protocol address of the destination transport user, opt presents any protocol-specific information that might be needed by the transport provider, udata points to optional user data that may be passed to the destination transport user during connection establishment, and sequence has no meaning for this function.

On return, in rcvcall, addr contains the protocol address associated with the responding transport endpoint, opt represents any protocol-specific information associated with the connection, udata points to optional user data that may be returned by the destination transport user during connection establishment, and sequence has no meaning for this function.

The opt argument permits users to define the options that may be passed to the transport provider. These options are specific to underlying protocol of the transport provider or XTI interface and are described in (for the XTI interface) and other protocol-specific appendices which are part of this specification. The user may choose not to negotiate protocol options by setting the len field of opt to zero. In this case, the provider uses the option values currently set for the communications endpoint.

If used, sndcall->opt.buf must point to a buffer with the corresponding options, and sndcall->opt.len must specify its length. The maxlen and buf fields of the netbuf structure pointed by rcvcall->addr and rcvcall->opt must be set before the call.

The udata argument enables the caller to pass user data to the destination transport user and receive user data from the destination user during connection establishment. However, the amount of user data must not exceed the limits supported by the transport provider as returned in the connect field of the info argument of t_open() or t_getinfo(). If the len of udata is zero in sndcall, no data will be sent to the destination transport user.

On return, the addr, opt and udata fields of rcvcall will be updated to reflect values associated with the connection. Thus, the maxlen field of each argument must be set before issuing this function to indicate the maximum size of the buffer for each. However, maxlen can be set to zero, in which case no information to this specific argument is given to the user on the return from t_connect(). If maxlen is greater than zero and less than the length of the value, t_connect() fails with t_errno set to [TBUFOVFLW]. If rcvcall is set to NULL, no information at all is returned.

By default, t_connect() executes in synchronous mode, and will wait for the destination user's response before returning control to the local user. A successful return (that is, return value of zero) indicates that the requested connection has been established. However, if O_NONBLOCK is set (via t_open() or fcntl()), t_connect() executes in asynchronous mode. In this case, the call will not wait for the remote user's response, but will return control immediately to the local user and return -1 with t_errno set to [TNODATA] to indicate that the connection has not yet been established. In this way, the function simply initiates the connection establishment procedure by sending a connection request to the destination transport user. The t_rcvconnect() function is used in conjunction with t_connect() to determine the status of the requested connection.

When a synchronous t_connect() call is interrupted by the arrival of a signal, the state of the corresponding transport endpoint is T_OUTCON, allowing a further call to either t_rcvconnect(), t_rcvdis() or t_snddis(). When an asynchronous t_connect() call is interrupted by the arrival of a signal, the state of the corresponding transport endpoint is T_IDLE.

VALID STATES

T_IDLE

ERRORS

On failure, t_errno is set to one of the following:

[TACCES]

The user does not have permission to use the specified address or options.

[TADDRBUSY]

This transport provider does not support multiple connections with the same local and remote addresses. This error indicates that a connection already exists.

[TBADADDR]

The specified protocol address was in an incorrect format or contained illegal information.

[TBADDATA]

The amount of user data specified was not within the bounds allowed by the transport provider.

[TBADF]

The specified file descriptor does not refer to a transport endpoint.

[TBADOPT]

The specified protocol options were in an incorrect format or contained illegal information.

[TBUFOVFLW]

The number of bytes allocated for an incoming argument (maxlen) is greater than 0 but not sufficient to store the value of that argument. If executed in synchronous mode, the provider's state, as seen by the user, changes to T_DATAXFER, and the information to be returned in rcvcall is discarded.

[TLOOK]

An asynchronous event has occurred on this transport endpoint and requires immediate attention.

[TNODATA]

O_NONBLOCK was set, so the function successfully initiated the connection establishment procedure, but did not wait for a response from the remote user.

[TNOTSUPPORT]

This function is not supported by the underlying transport provider.

[TOUTSTATE]

The communications endpoint referenced by fd is not in one of the states in which a call to this function is valid.

[TPROTO]

This error indicates that a communication problem has been detected between XTI and the transport provider for which there is no other suitable XTI error (t_errno).

[TSYSERR]

A system error has occurred during execution of this function.

RETURN VALUE

Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned. Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned and t_errno is set to indicate an error.

SEE ALSO

t_accept(), t_alloc(), t_getinfo(), t_listen(), t_open(), t_optmgmt(), t_rcvconnect().