Method

GioSocketListeneraccept

Declaration

GSocketConnection*
g_socket_listener_accept (
  GSocketListener* listener,
  GObject** source_object,
  GCancellable* cancellable,
  GError** error
)

Description

Blocks waiting for a client to connect to any of the sockets added to the listener. Returns a GSocketConnection for the socket that was accepted.

If source_object is not NULL it will be filled out with the source object specified when the corresponding socket or address was added to the listener.

If cancellable is not NULL, then the operation can be cancelled by triggering the cancellable object from another thread. If the operation was cancelled, the error G_IO_ERROR_CANCELLED will be returned.

Available since:

2.22

Parameters

`source_object`	`GObject`
	Location where `GObject` pointer will be stored, or `NULL`.
	The argument will be set by the function.
	The argument can be set to `NULL`.
	The argument can be `NULL`.
	The data is owned by the caller of the function.
`cancellable`	`GCancellable`
	Optional `GCancellable` object, `NULL` to ignore.
	The argument can be `NULL`.
	The data is owned by the caller of the function.
`error`	`GError **`
	The return location for a `GError*`, or `NULL`.

Return value

Returns:	`GSocketConnection`
	A `GSocketConnection` on success, `NULL` on error.
	The caller of the method takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.