WSPGetSockOpt

The WSPGetSockOpt function retrieves a socket option.

int WSPGetSockOpt (
  SOCKET       s,            
  int          level,           
  int          optname,         
  char FAR     *optval,   
  LPINT        optlen,        
  LPINT        lpErrno        
);

Parameters

s

[in] Descriptor identifying a socket.

level

[in] Level at which the option is defined; the supported levels include SOL_SOCKET. (See annex for more protocol-specific levels.)

optname

[in] Socket option for which the value is to be retrieved.

optval

[out] Pointer to the buffer in which the value for the requested option is to be returned.

optlen

[in/out] Pointer to the size of the optval buffer.

lpErrno

[out] A pointer to the error code.

Return Values

If no error occurs, WSPGetSockOpt returns zero. Otherwise, a value of SOCKET_ERROR is returned, and a specific error code is available in lpErrno.

Remarks

WSPGetSockOpt retrieves the current value for a socket option associated with a socket of any type, in any state, and stores the result in optval. Options can exist at multiple protocol levels, but they are always present at the uppermost socket' level. Options affect socket operations, such as the routing of packets and OOB data transfer.

The value associated with the selected option is returned in the buffer optval. The integer pointed to by optlen should originally contain the size of this buffer; on return, it will be set to the size of the value returned. For SO_LINGER, this will be the size of a structure linger; for most other options it will be the size of an integer.

The Windows Sockets SPI client is responsible for allocating any memory space pointed to directly or indirectly by any of the parameters it specifies.

If the option was never set with WSPSetSockOpt, then WSPGetSockOpt returns the default value for the option.

level = SOL_SOCKET

Calling WSPGetSockOpt with an unsupported option will result in an error code of WSAENOPROTOOPT being returned in lpErrno.

SO_DEBUG

Windows Sockets service providers are encouraged (but not required) to supply output debug information if the SO_DEBUG option is set by a Windows Sockets SPI client. The mechanism for generating the debug information and the form it takes are beyond the scope of this specification.

SO_ERROR

The SO_ERROR option returns and resets the per-socket-based error code (that is not necessarily the same as the per-thread-error code that is maintained by the Ws2_32.dll). A successful Windows Sockets call on the socket does not reset the socket-based error code returned by the SO_ERROR option.

SO_GROUP_ID

Reserved. This value should be NULL.

SO_GROUP_PRIORITY

Reserved.

SO_KEEPALIVE

A Windows Sockets SPI client can request that a TCP/IP service provider enable the use of keep-alive packets on TCP connections by turning on the SO_KEEPALIVE socket option. A Windows Sockets provider need not support the use of keep-alives: if it does, the precise semantics are implementation specific but should conform to section 4.2.3.6 of RFC 1122: Requirements for Internet Hosts—Communication Layers. If a connection is dropped as the result of keep-alives, the error code WSAENETRESET is returned to any calls in progress on the socket, and any subsequent calls will fail with WSAENOTCONN.

SO_LINGER

SO_LINGER controls the action taken when unsent data is queued on a socket and a WSPCloseSocket is performed. See WSPCloseSocket for a description of the way in which the SO_LINGER settings affect the semantics of WSPCloseSocket. The Windows Sockets SPI client obtains the desired behavior by creating a LINGER structure (pointed to by the optval argument) with the following elements:

struct linger {
    u_short    l_onoff;
    u_short    l_linger;
}

SO_MAX_MSG_SIZE

This is a get-only socket option, which indicates the maximum size of an outbound send message for message-oriented socket types (for example, SOCK_DGRAM) as implemented by the service provider. It has no meaning for byte stream-oriented sockets. There is no provision to determine the maximum inbound message size.

SO_PROTOCOL_INFOW

This is a get-only option that supplies the WSAPROTOCOL_INFO structure associated with this socket. See WSCEnumProtocols for more information about this structure.

SO_SNDBUF

When a Windows Sockets service provider supports the SO_RCVBUF and SO_SNDBUF options, a Windows Sockets SPI client can use WSPSetSockOpt to request different buffer sizes (larger or smaller). The call can succeed even though the service provider did not make available the entire amount requested. A Windows Sockets SPI client must call this function with the same option to check the buffer size actually provided.

SO_REUSEADDR

By default, a socket can not be bound (see WSPBind) to a local address that is already in use. On occasion, however, it may be desirable to reuse an address in this way. Since every connection is uniquely identified by the combination of local and remote addresses, there is no problem with having two sockets bound to the same local address as long as the remote addresses are different. To inform the Windows Sockets provider that a WSPBind on a socket should be allowed to bind to a local address that is already in use by another socket, the Windows Sockets SPI client should set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option for the socket before issuing the WSPBind. Note that the option is interpreted only at the time of the WSPBind:. It is therefore unnecessary (but harmless) to set the option on a socket that is not to be bound to an existing address, and setting or resetting the option after the WSPBind has no effect on this or any other socket.

PVD_CONFIG

This option retrieves an opaque data structure object from the service provider associated with socket s. This object stores the current configuration information of the service provider. The exact format of this data structure is service-provider specific.

Error Codes

Requirements

  Version: Requires Windows Sockets 2.0.
  Header: Declared in Ws2spi.h.

See Also

WSPSetSockOpt, WSPSocket