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bind(2)

socket(2)

GETSOCKNAME(2)

NAME

getsockname − get socket name

USAGE

getsockname(s, name, namelen) int s, namelen; struct sockaddr *name;

DESCRIPTION

Getsockname returns the current name for the specified socket s.  The namelen parameter should be initialized to indicate the amount of space that name points to.  On return, it contains the size, in bytes, of the name. 

RETURN VALUE

A successful call returns zero.  A failed call returns -1 and sets errno as indicated below. 

ERRORS

The call succeeds unless:

[EBADF] The argument s is not a valid descriptor. 

[ENOTSOCK] The argument s is a file, not a socket. 

[ENOBUFS] Insufficient system resources were available. 

[EFAULT] The name parameter points to memory that isn’t in a valid part of the process’s address space. 

RELATED INFORMATION

bind(2), socket(2)

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