sysdecode_sockopt_name(3)

💅 sysdecode_sockopt_name(3) 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the Library Functions Manual page for sysdecode_sockopt_name — yes, that’s the manual name, and yes, we’re doing this. It’s giving “tiny function, very specific job,” and honestly? Obsessed. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

sysdecode_sockopt_name — lookup name of socket option 💖

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🫶 LIBRARY 🫶

library “libsysdecode” — that’s the one, bestie, no cap. 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <sysdecode.h>

const char *
sysdecode_sockopt_name(int level, int optname);

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so sysdecode_sockopt_name() returns a text description of the socket option name passed in the optname argument to getsockopt(2). Literally what it says on the tin. 💅

sysdecode_sockopt_name() takes the socket option level as well as the option name to uniquely identify the option. So you’re handing it both level and optname, and it can do its little lookup thing. That’s the whole vibe check. 🌈

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• sysdecode_sockopt_level(3) — the other reference, bestie; go glance at it when you’re done here. 💜

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💀 BUGS 💀

Real talk: socket option levels and names are protocol-specific. That’s the caveat, and it matters. 😭

Both sysdecode_sockopt_level() and sysdecode_sockopt_name() should possibly accept the protocol family as an additional argument. Not me reading that and going “hmm, yeah, fair” — but there it is, bestie. 🫠

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🎀 okay that’s the whole page, mwah! source/version: Debian; date: October 17, 2016; manual: sysdecode_sockopt_name(3). periodt. 💋