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Asked: 2026-05-14T08:55:18+00:00

There are two connected sockets. How can I interconnect them? Data appeared on the

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There are two connected sockets. How can I interconnect them?

  1. Data appeared on the one socket should be written to the other.
  2. EOF/FIN should propogate well. If one is half-closed, the other should also be half-closed.
int client = get_connected_client_socket();
int proxy = get_connected_proxy_socket();
negotiate_with_proxy(proxy);
iterconnect(client, proxy); 
// Now forgot about both client and proxy. 
// System should handle IO/shutdown/close. 
// Ideally even without any support of the user-space process.

Can Linux do it? Can it be done by tricking connection tracking to change tracking status of existing connection?

@related Determine how much can I write into a filehandle; copying data from one FH to the other

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  1. Editorial Team

    Are you aware of splice(). Based on your two questions I think this is where you are headed. Last I checked you can’t do this in one splice call because both of file descriptors can’t be sockets. But you should be able to do it in 2 calls (sockin->pipe->sockout). Also take a look at tee(). These may not be exactly what you want but from what I can figure they are in the ballpark.

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