The std api can only create UdpSockets, the trick here is that you use Socket2 which allows more kinds of sockets and then you tell UdpSocket that some raw file

The std api can only create UdpSockets, the trick here is that you use Socket2 which allows more kinds of sockets and then you tell UdpSocket that some raw file descriptor is a upd socket through a unsafe api with no checks and I guess it works because they use the same api on posix. Edit: It is possible in safe rust as well, see child comment. The macro used by socket2: https://docs.rs/socket2/0.6.1/src/socket2/lib.rs.html#108 https://docs.rs/socket2/0.6.1/src/socket2/lib.rs.html#108 The FromRawFd trait: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/os/fd/trait.FromRawFd.html https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/os/fd/trait.FromRawFd.h...