Remarks

This routine extracts the first connection on the queue of pending connections on s, creates a new socket and returns a handle to the new socket. The newly created socket has the same properties as s including asynchronous events registered with WSAAsyncSelect or with WSAEventSelect, but not including the listening socket's group ID, if any. If no pending connections are present on the queue, and the socket is not marked as nonblocking, accept blocks the caller until a connection is present. If the socket is marked nonblocking and no pending connections are present on the queue, accept returns an error as described below. The accepted socket cannot be used to accept more connections. The original socket remains open.