libcutils/socket_loopback_client.c

/* libs/cutils/socket_loopback_client.c
**
** Copyright 2006, The Android Open Source Project
**
** Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 
** you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 
** You may obtain a copy of the License at 
**
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*/

#include <cutils/sockets.h>

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <stddef.h>

#ifndef HAVE_WINSOCK
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <sys/select.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#endif

/* Connect to port on the loopback IP interface. type is
 * SOCK_STREAM or SOCK_DGRAM. 
 * return is a file descriptor or -1 on error
 */
int socket_loopback_client(int port, int type)
{
    struct sockaddr_in addr;
    socklen_t alen;
    int s;

    memset(&addr, 0, sizeof(addr));
    addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
    addr.sin_port = htons(port);
    addr.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_LOOPBACK);

    s = socket(AF_INET, type, 0);
    if(s < 0) return -1;

    if(connect(s, (struct sockaddr *) &addr, sizeof(addr)) < 0) {
        close(s);
        return -1;
    }

    return s;

}