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BIND(2) 						      BSD System Calls Manual							   BIND(2)

NAME
bind -- assign a local protocol address to a socket LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/socket.h> int bind(int s, const struct sockaddr *addr, socklen_t addrlen); DESCRIPTION
The bind() system call assigns the local protocol address to a socket. When a socket is created with socket(2) it exists in an address fam- ily space but has no protocol address assigned. The bind() system call requests that addr be assigned to the socket. NOTES
Binding an address 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 unlink(2)). The rules used in address binding vary between communication domains. Consult the manual entries in section 4 for detailed information. For maximum portability, you should always zero the socket address structure before populating it and passing it to bind(). RETURN VALUES
The bind() function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error. ERRORS
The bind() system call will fail if: [EAGAIN] Kernel resources to complete the request are temporarily unavailable. [EBADF] The s argument is not a valid descriptor. [EINVAL] The socket is already bound to an address, and the protocol does not support binding to a new address; or the socket has been shut down. [EINVAL] The addrlen argument is not a valid length for the address family. [ENOTSOCK] The s argument is not a socket. [EADDRNOTAVAIL] The specified address is not available from the local machine. [EADDRINUSE] The specified address is already in use. [EAFNOSUPPORT] Addresses in the specified address family cannot be used with this socket. [EACCES] The requested address is protected, and the current user has inadequate permission to access it. [EFAULT] The addr argument is not in a valid part of the user address space. The following errors are specific to binding addresses in the UNIX domain. [ENOTDIR] A component of the path prefix is not a directory. [ENAMETOOLONG] A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters, or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters. [ENOENT] A prefix component of the path name does not exist. [ELOOP] Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname. [EIO] An I/O error occurred while making the directory entry or allocating the inode. [EROFS] The name would reside on a read-only file system. [EISDIR] An empty pathname was specified. SEE ALSO
connect(2), getsockname(2), listen(2), socket(2) HISTORY
The bind() system call appeared in 4.2BSD. BSD
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BIND(2) 						      BSD System Calls Manual							   BIND(2)

NAME
bind -- bind a name to a socket LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/socket.h> int bind(int s, const struct sockaddr *name, socklen_t namelen); DESCRIPTION
bind() assigns a name to an unnamed socket. When a socket is created with socket(2) it exists in a name space (address family) but has no name assigned. bind() requests that name be assigned to the socket. namelen indicates the amount of space pointed to by name, in bytes. 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 unlink(2)). The rules used in name binding vary between communication domains. Consult the manual entries in section 4 for detailed information. 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 errno. ERRORS
The bind() call will fail if: [EBADF] s is not a valid descriptor. [ENOTSOCK] s is not a socket. [EADDRNOTAVAIL] The specified address is not available from the local machine. [EADDRINUSE] The specified address is already in use. [EINVAL] The socket is already bound to an address. [EINVAL] The family of the socket and that requested in name->sa_family are not equivalent. [EACCES] The requested address is protected, and the current user has inadequate permission to access it. [EFAULT] The name parameter is not in a valid part of the user address space. The following errors are specific to binding names in the UNIX domain. [ENOTDIR] A component of the path prefix is not a directory. [ENAMETOOLONG] A component of a pathname exceeded {NAME_MAX} characters, or an entire path name exceeded {PATH_MAX} characters. [ENOENT] A prefix component of the path name does not exist. [ELOOP] Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname. [EIO] An I/O error occurred while making the directory entry or allocating the inode. [EROFS] The name would reside on a read-only file system. [EISDIR] An empty pathname was specified. SEE ALSO
connect(2), getsockname(2), listen(2), socket(2) HISTORY
The bind() function call appeared in 4.2BSD. SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
bind() was changed in NetBSD 1.4 to prevent the binding of a socket to the same port as an existing socket when all of the following is true: o either of the existing or new addresses is INADDR_ANY, o the uid of the new socket is not root, and the uids of the creators of the sockets are different, o the address is not a multicast address, and o both sockets are not bound to INADDR_ANY with SO_REUSEPORT set. This prevents an attack where a user could bind to a port with the host's IP address (after setting SO_REUSEADDR) and 'steal' packets des- tined for a server that bound to the same port with INADDR_ANY. bind() was changed in NetBSD 4.0 to honor the user's umask when binding sockets in the local domain. This was done to match the behavior of other operating systems, including FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Linux, and to improve compatibility with some third-party software. Please note that this behavior is not portable. If you must bind a local socket in a portable and secure way, you need to make a directory with tight permissions and then create the socket inside it. BSD
August 30, 2005 BSD
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