tipc_connect(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 tipc_connect(9) — like, the kernel API manual, but make it make sense 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to tipc_connect(9) from the Kernel API Manual ✨ this is the little function that goes "hi bestie 👋" to another TIPC port and asks it to be friends. establishing a connection. very main character energy. let's get into it 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

tipc_connect — establish a connection to another TIPC port 💅

like literally that's the whole vibe. you point it at a destination port and it goes "hey, wanna connect?" and the kernel handles the rest. obsessed.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int tipc_connect (struct socket *sock , struct sockaddr_unsized *dest ,
int destlen , int flags );

no cap, that's the exact signature, character for character. don't @ me, just copy it right 🫶

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • sock — the socket structure 💖 this is your socket, your little guy, the one doing the connecting. socket structure, periodt.
  • dest — socket address for destination port 🎯 this is where you're connecting to. the destination port's address. it's a struct sockaddr_unsized * and it's giving "I know where I'm going" energy.
  • destlen — size of socket address data structure 📏 literally just how big that address blob is. the size of the socket address data structure. that's it, that's the whole job.
  • flags — file-related flags associated with socket 🚩 file-related flags associated with the socket. yes those flags. the file-related ones. keep them exactly as they are, don't get creative.

👑 RETURN 👑

0 on success, errno otherwise 😭

so like — zero means slay, you did it, connection established, we're so back. anything else is an errno and you should probably go read it and have a little cry about it (affectionately). no in-between, no "maybe", just 0 or errno. periodt.

ngl this is the part where you actually check the return value. bestie. please. check it. 🙈

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

okay this list is LONG and honestly iconic — it's the whole TIPC friend group 🫶 all 42 of them, in order, no skips:

and that's the whole page bestie!! 💜

cute little sign-off time 🎀 this one lives in ./net/tipc, it's dated October 2026, and it's still called tipc_connect(9) — go connect to something, you got this, ily, bye 🦋💖

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