accept Function

SOCKET accept(
    SOCKET s, 
    struct sockaddr* addr, 
    int* addrlen
);

The accept function is used to accept connection requests queued for a listening socket. If a connection request is pending, accept removes the request from the queue, and a new socket is created for the connection. The original listening socket remains open and continues to queue new connection requests. The socket must be a SOCK_STREAM type socket.

listen function should be called.

If the accept function succeeds, it returns a non-negative integer that is a descriptor for the accepted socket. Otherwise, the value INVALID_SOCKET is returned.

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