set-socket-options

Arguments: socket &key reuse-address broadcast keepalive nodelay oob-inline receive-buffer-size send-buffer-size

Sets system socket options for this socket. The meanings of the options are described in the description of make-socket.

The following are boolean options, and so specifiying a true value turns them on and specifying nil turns them off. If you do not specify a value for one of these options, then the value is not changed.

• reuse-address
• broadcast
• keepalive
• nodelay
• oob-inline

receive-buffer-size and send-buffer-size take integer arguments. Again, not specifying a value leaves it unchanged.

Note that certain options only work with certain kinds of sockets (e.g. broadcast only works for datagram sockets). See the description of make-socket for more information on what works with what sort of socket.

See socket.htm for information on sockets.

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Created 2001.12.15.