From a24d7948b6daf227311655dc2a34fd76e17342bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Todd C. Miller" <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 22:29:03 +0000
Subject: Add an EXAMPLES section that illustrates how to deal with connect(2)
 returning EINTR.  OK jung@ deraadt@

---
 lib/libc/sys/connect.2 | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 52 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'lib/libc/sys/connect.2')

diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/connect.2 b/lib/libc/sys/connect.2
index 165f537a94d..2f8e0c5a7ae 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/connect.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/connect.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: connect.2,v 1.29 2016/08/09 17:34:06 millert Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: connect.2,v 1.30 2016/08/18 22:29:02 millert Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: connect.2,v 1.8 1995/10/12 15:40:48 jtc Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1993
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"     @(#)connect.2	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: August 9 2016 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: August 18 2016 $
 .Dt CONNECT 2
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -104,6 +104,56 @@ If the connection or binding succeeds, 0 is returned.
 Otherwise a \-1 is returned, and a more specific error
 code is stored in
 .Va errno .
+.Sh EXAMPLES
+The following code connects to the host described by
+.Fa name
+and handles the case where
+.Fn connect
+is interrupted by a signal.
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+#include <sys/socket.h>
+#include <poll.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <err.h>
+
+int
+connect_wait(int s, const struct sockaddr *name, socklen_t namelen)
+{
+	struct pollfd pfd[1];
+	int error = 0;
+	socklen_t len = sizeof(error);
+
+	pfd[0].fd = s;
+	pfd[0].events = POLLOUT;
+	for (;;) {
+		if (poll(pfd, 1, -1) == -1) {
+			if (errno != EINTR)
+				return -1;
+			continue;
+		}
+		if (getsockopt(s, SOL_SOCKET, SO_ERROR, &error, &len) < 0)
+			return -1;
+		if (error != 0)
+			errno = error;
+		break;
+	}
+	return (error ? -1 : 0);
+}
+
+\&...
+
+int retcode;
+
+\&...
+
+retcode = connect(s, name, namelen);
+if (retcode == -1) {
+	if (errno == EINTR)
+		retcode = connect_wait(s, name, namelen);
+	if (retcode == -1)
+		err(1, "connect");
+}
+.Ed
 .Sh ERRORS
 The
 .Fn connect
-- 
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