Base: Add accept(2) man page

This man page was referenced from some places. This is mostly a
condensed version of the POSIX behavior that the system call
implementation already has, only documenting the obviously visible
errors (in source code) we do actually report.
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kleines Filmröllchen 2022-11-12 00:47:11 +01:00 committed by Jelle Raaijmakers
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## Name
accept - accept a new connection on a server socket
## Synopsis
```**c++
#include <sys/socket.h>
int accept(int sockfd, sockaddr* addr, socklen_t* addrlen);
```
## Description
Accept a new connection from a client for the server specified by `sockfd`. This function will block until there is at least one client trying to connect to the server, with other clients being queued up for accepting.
When `accept(2)` is successful, a new socket with a unique file descriptor is created and that file descriptor returned. If not null, the `addr` argument will contain the address of the newly-connected client. If not null, the `addrlen` argument will contain the maximum length of the client address that should be written, and it will in turn be overwritten with the actual length of the client address written back to `addr`.
## Return value
If the return value is positive, it represents the file descriptor of the new socket connected to the client that was accepted. If the return value is -1, the error can be found in `errno`, where the most important errors are:
- `EBADFD`: The file descriptor `sockfd` is invalid.
- `ENOTSOCK`: The given file descriptor `sockfd` is valid, but does not point to a socket.
- `EMFILE`: No more file descriptors are available for the new socket.
- `EAGAIN`: The socket was specified to be non-blocking, and there is no client in the queue. The user should try to `accept(2)` again at a later point.
- `EINTR`: A signal interrupted the blocking.

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{
const StringView acceptable_missing_files[] = {
// FIXME: Please write these manpages!
"/usr/share/man/man2/accept.md"sv,
"/usr/share/man/man2/exec.md"sv,
"/usr/share/man/man2/fcntl.md"sv,
"/usr/share/man/man2/fork.md"sv,