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NAME, SYNOPSIS, DESCRIPTION, RETURN VALUE, ERRORS, CONFORMING TO, NOTES, SEE ALSO, COLOPHON

GETSOCKNAME 2 1993-07-24 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"

NAME

getsockname - get socket name

SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/socket.h> 
"int getsockname(int " s ", struct sockaddr *" name ", socklen_t *" namelen );

DESCRIPTION

getsockname () returns the current name for the specified socket. The namelen parameter should be initialized to indicate the amount of space pointed to by name. On return it contains the actual size of the name returned (in bytes).

RETURN VALUE

On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately.

ERRORS

EBADF

The argument s is not a valid descriptor.

EFAULT

The name parameter points to memory not in a valid part of the process address space.

EINVAL

namelen is invalid (e.g., is negative).

ENOBUFS

Insufficient resources were available in the system to perform the operation. ENOTSOCK The argument s is a file, not a socket.

CONFORMING TO

SVr4, 4.4BSD (the getsockname () function call appeared in 4.2BSD), POSIX.1-2001.

NOTES

The third argument of getsockname () is in reality an int * (and this is what 4.x BSD and libc4 and libc5 have). Some POSIX confusion resulted in the present socklen_t, also used by glibc. See also accept(2).

SEE ALSO

bind(2), socket(2)

COLOPHON

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Possibly related

getsockname(3p), raw nroff source of getsockname(2)