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getsockname(SSC)


getsockname -- get socket name

Syntax

cc ... -lsocket

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

Description

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

Return values

A return value of zero indicates that the call succeeded. A return value of -1 indicates that an error occurred, and in this case an error code is stored in the global variable errno.

Diagnostics

The call fails if:

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

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

[ENOBUFS]
Insufficient resources were available in the system to perform the operation.

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

See also

Intro(ADMP), Intro(SSC), bind(SSC), socket(SSC)
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