From: "Günther Noack" <gnoack3000@gmail.com>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, "Günther Noack" <gnoack3000@gmail.com>,
"Kuniyuki Iwashima" <kuniyu@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH 8/8] man/man7/unix.7: ERRORS: Document EACCES, EAGAIN, EMSGSIZE, ENOSPC, and EPERM
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 23:08:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261021210800.27338-10-gnoack3000@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261021210800.27338-2-gnoack3000@gmail.com>
These are all returned directly from linux.git net/unix/af_unix.c:
EACCES
unix_find_bsd() checks path_permission(&path, MAY_WRITE) on the
socket file of the remote address. The rule was already described
in prose, but the error was not listed.
EAGAIN
unix_stream_connect() returns -EAGAIN when the listener's backlog
is full and the socket is nonblocking (there is no EINPROGRESS for
AF_UNIX). unix_dgram_sendmsg() returns -EAGAIN when the receiver's
queue is full and the send would block.
EMSGSIZE
unix_dgram_sendmsg() fails if 'len > sk->sk_sndbuf - 32'. This is
the limit described in "Sockets API".
ENOSPC
unix_autobind() fails when all 2^20 autobind names are taken.
EPERM
unix_dgram_connect() and unix_dgram_sendmsg() fail if
!unix_may_send(), that is, if the target datagram socket is
connected to a socket other than the caller's.
This is not something that the remote end normally does,
but it's a possible corner case.
Cc: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Günther Noack <gnoack3000@gmail.com>
---
Notes:
Verified in code. Kept LLM wording, which seemed OK.
Remark:
The case where the remote end is connected to a different socket is
obscure, but still possible with Unix Domain Sockets, when a program
first bind(2)s to a name, and then connect(2)s to another name. Then
that socket can be discovered by another process through the bound
name, but sending a dgram fails if the sender is not the one that that
socket has connected to.
man/man7/unix.7 | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)
diff --git a/man/man7/unix.7 b/man/man7/unix.7
index 054f1af75dd5..79198445c581 100644
--- a/man/man7/unix.7
+++ b/man/man7/unix.7
@@ -655,10 +655,25 @@ defined in
.\" and it may well change, probably best not to document this now.
.SH ERRORS
.TP
+.B EACCES
+The caller does not have write permission on the socket file
+specified as the remote address to
+.BR connect (2)
+or
+.BR sendto (2)
+(see "Pathname socket ownership and permissions", above).
+.TP
.B EADDRINUSE
The specified local address is already in use or the filesystem socket
object already exists.
.TP
+.B EAGAIN
+The socket is nonblocking, and either
+.BR connect (2)
+was called on a stream or sequenced-packet socket
+and the backlog of the listening socket is full,
+or a datagram was sent to a socket whose receive queue is full.
+.TP
.B EBADF
This error can occur for
.BR sendmsg (2)
@@ -694,6 +709,11 @@ invalid state for the applied operation.
called on an already connected socket or a target address was
specified on a connected socket.
.TP
+.B EMSGSIZE
+The datagram to be sent is larger than the limit imposed by the
+.B SO_SNDBUF
+socket option (see "Sockets API", above).
+.TP
.B ENFILE
The system-wide limit on the total number of open files has been reached.
.TP
@@ -705,6 +725,11 @@ did not exist.
.B ENOMEM
Out of memory.
.TP
+.B ENOSPC
+The socket was to be autobound,
+but all autobind addresses are in use
+(see "Autobind feature", above).
+.TP
.B ENOTCONN
Socket operation needs a target address, but the socket is not connected.
.TP
@@ -716,6 +741,13 @@ use the out-of-band data option.
The sender passed invalid credentials in the
.IR "struct ucred" .
.TP
+.B EPERM
+.BR connect (2)
+or
+.BR sendto (2)
+specified a datagram socket as the remote address,
+but that socket is connected to a different socket.
+.TP
.B EPIPE
Remote socket was closed on a stream socket.
If enabled, a
--
2.56.0
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-21 21:07 [PATCH 0/8] {unix,socket,bind}.7: General Unix Domain Socket fixes Günther Noack
2026-10-21 21:07 ` [PATCH 1/8] man/man7/socket.7: SO_PEEK_OFF: This option is no longer specific to unix(7) Günther Noack
2026-10-23 18:20 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-10-26 20:48 ` Günther Noack
2026-10-24 5:27 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-10-21 21:07 ` [PATCH 2/8] man/man7/unix.7: SO_PEERCRED: Also works for SOCK_SEQPACKET Günther Noack
2026-10-24 5:28 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-10-21 21:07 ` [PATCH 3/8] man/man7/unix.7: SIOCINQ: Document behavior " Günther Noack
2026-10-24 5:34 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-10-26 20:59 ` Günther Noack
2026-10-21 21:07 ` [PATCH 4/8] man/man7/unix.7: Explain Abstract UDS scoping to the network namespace Günther Noack
2026-10-24 5:39 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-10-26 21:11 ` Günther Noack
2026-10-27 5:12 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-10-27 7:58 ` Günther Noack
2026-10-21 21:07 ` [PATCH 5/8] man/man7/unix.7: SOCK_RAW is accepted as an alias for SOCK_DGRAM Günther Noack
2026-10-24 5:44 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-10-26 21:13 ` Günther Noack
2026-10-21 21:07 ` [PATCH 6/8] man/man7/unix.7: ERRORS: EPROTONOSUPPORT: Protocol 0 is also accepted Günther Noack
2026-10-24 5:47 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-10-26 21:15 ` Günther Noack
2026-10-21 21:07 ` [PATCH 7/8] man/man2/bind.2: ERRORS: EACCES: Write permission on the directory is required Günther Noack
2026-10-24 5:56 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-10-24 5:58 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-10-26 21:16 ` Günther Noack
2026-10-21 21:08 ` Günther Noack [this message]
2026-10-24 6:03 ` [PATCH 8/8] man/man7/unix.7: ERRORS: Document EACCES, EAGAIN, EMSGSIZE, ENOSPC, and EPERM Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-10-26 21:27 ` Günther Noack
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