socket_mcloop6(3)

💖 socket_mcloop6 💖

okay bestie, so we're looking at a page from the Library Functions Manual — it's socket_mcloop6(3), and she's a tiny little icon but she does exactly one thing and she does it flawlessly. no notes. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

socket_mcloop6 — set multicast loopback 🎀

🌸 SYNTAX 🌸

#include <libowfat/socket.h>

int socket_mcloop6(int s,char loop);

like yes, that's the whole thing, she's short and she knows it 🦋

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so here's the tea, bestie: socket_mcloop6 turns multicast loopback on for the socket s when loop is non-zero, and turns it off otherwise. that's it. that's the whole job. main character behaviour honestly 👑

and what does loopback actually mean here? it means if it's activated, packets you send on this socket will be received on the same host. yes, you heard that right — you send it, you receive it, it's giving self-love, it's giving "i am my own audience" 🫶✨

if something goes wrong, socket_mcloop6 returns -1 and sets errno appropriately. so like, always check your errno, bestie, she's trying to tell you something 😭

not me being emotionally invested in a return value 💀 but fr fr, -1 + errno is the whole error story here, don't sleep on it.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• socket_mcloop4(3)
• socket_mcjoin6(3)
• socket_mcleave6(3)

the squad 🫶 go read them, iykyk

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this came to you from the Library Functions Manual — socket_mcloop6(3), periodt. stay slaying those multicast packets 💖✨🎀🦋🌸💅