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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2003-2013 The Music Player Daemon Project
+ * http://www.musicpd.org
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
+ * with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+ * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * This library provides easy helper functions for working with
+ * sockets.
+ *
+ */
+
+#ifndef MPD_SOCKET_UTIL_HXX
+#define MPD_SOCKET_UTIL_HXX
+
+#include "gerror.h"
+
+#include <stddef.h>
+
+struct sockaddr;
+
+/**
+ * Creates a socket listening on the specified address.  This is a
+ * shortcut for socket(), bind() and listen().
+ *
+ * @param domain the socket domain, e.g. PF_INET6
+ * @param type the socket type, e.g. SOCK_STREAM
+ * @param protocol the protocol, usually 0 to let the kernel choose
+ * @param address the address to listen on
+ * @param address_length the size of #address
+ * @param backlog the backlog parameter for the listen() system call
+ * @param error location to store the error occurring, or NULL to
+ * ignore errors
+ * @return the socket file descriptor or -1 on error
+ */
+int
+socket_bind_listen(int domain, int type, int protocol,
+		   const struct sockaddr *address, size_t address_length,
+		   int backlog,
+		   GError **error);
+
+int
+socket_keepalive(int fd);
+
+#endif