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author | Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1995-10-18 08:53:40 +0000 |
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committer | Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1995-10-18 08:53:40 +0000 |
commit | d6583bb2a13f329cf0332ef2570eb8bb8fc0e39c (patch) | |
tree | ece253b876159b39c620e62b6c9b1174642e070e /lib/libc/sys/bind.2 |
initial import of NetBSD tree
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diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/bind.2 b/lib/libc/sys/bind.2 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..be5aac93bd5 --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/libc/sys/bind.2 @@ -0,0 +1,129 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: bind.2,v 1.7 1995/02/27 12:31:54 cgd Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by the University of +.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. +.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)bind.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 +.\" +.Dd June 4, 1993 +.Dt BIND 2 +.Os BSD 4.2 +.Sh NAME +.Nm bind +.Nd bind a name to a socket +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Fd #include <sys/types.h> +.Fd #include <sys/socket.h> +.Ft int +.Fn bind "int s" "struct sockaddr *name" "int namelen" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Fn Bind +assigns a name to an unnamed socket. +When a socket is created +with +.Xr socket 2 +it exists in a name space (address family) +but has no name assigned. +.Fn Bind +requests that +.Fa name +be assigned to the socket. +.Sh NOTES +Binding a name in the UNIX domain creates a socket in the file +system that must be deleted by the caller when it is no longer +needed (using +.Xr unlink 2 ) . +.Pp +The rules used in name binding vary between communication domains. +Consult the manual entries in section 4 for detailed information. +.Sh RETURN VALUES +If the bind is successful, a 0 value is returned. +A return value of -1 indicates an error, which is +further specified in the global +.Va errno . +.Sh ERRORS +The +.Fn bind +call will fail if: +.Bl -tag -width Er +.It Bq Er EBADF +.Fa S +is not a valid descriptor. +.It Bq Er ENOTSOCK +.Fa S +is not a socket. +.It Bq Er EADDRNOTAVAIL +The specified address is not available from the local machine. +.It Bq Er EADDRINUSE +The specified address is already in use. +.It Bq Er EINVAL +The socket is already bound to an address. +.It Bq Er EACCES +The requested address is protected, and the current user +has inadequate permission to access it. +.It Bq Er EFAULT +The +.Fa name +parameter is not in a valid part of the user +address space. +.El +.Pp +The following errors are specific to binding names in the UNIX domain. +.Bl -tag -width Er +.It Bq Er ENOTDIR +A component of the path prefix is not a directory. +.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG +A component of a pathname exceeded +.Dv {NAME_MAX} +characters, or an entire path name exceeded +.Dv {PATH_MAX} +characters. +.It Bq Er ENOENT +A prefix component of the path name does not exist. +.It Bq Er ELOOP +Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname. +.It Bq Er EIO +An I/O error occurred while making the directory entry or allocating the inode. +.It Bq Er EROFS +The name would reside on a read-only file system. +.It Bq Er EISDIR +An empty pathname was specified. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr connect 2 , +.Xr listen 2 , +.Xr socket 2 , +.Xr getsockname 2 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Fn bind +function call appeared in +.Bx 4.2 . |