socket-connection-socket

socket-connection-socket Function

Summary

Returns the socket handle of a socket connection.

Package

comm

Signature

socket-connection-socket socket-connection => socket-handle

Arguments

socket-connection⇩

A socket connection (socket-stream or async-io-state).

Values

socket-handle⇩

A socket handle.

Description

The function socket-connection-socket returns the socket handle associated with socket-connection. socket-connection must be either a socket-stream or a async-io-state.

The result socket-handle is an implementation-specific socket handle, that is a file descriptor on Unix-like systems, a socket handle on Windows and a lw-ji:jobject of Java class javax.net.ssl.SSLSocket for streams opened with open-tcp-stream-using-java.

Notes

When socket-connection is a socket-stream, socket-connection-socket is equivalent to socket-stream-socket.