bindat(2) [freebsd man page]
BINDAT(2) BSD System Calls Manual BINDAT(2) NAME
bindat -- assign a local protocol address to a socket LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/socket.h> #include <fcntl.h> int bindat(int fd, int s, const struct sockaddr *addr, socklen_t addrlen); DESCRIPTION
The bindat() system call assigns the local protocol address to a socket. It works just like the bind(2) system call with two exceptions: 1. It is limited to sockets in the PF_LOCAL domain. 2. If the file path stored in the sun_path field of the sockaddr_un structure is a relative path, it is located relative to the directory associated with the file descriptor fd. If bindat() is passed the special value AT_FDCWD in the fd parameter, the cur- rent working directory is used and the behavior is identical to a call to bind(2). RETURN VALUES
The bindat() 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 bindat() system call may fail with the same errors as the bind(2) system call for a UNIX domain socket or with the following errors: [EBADF] The sun_path field does not specify an absolute path and the fd argument is neither AT_FDCWD nor a valid file descriptor. [ENOTDIR] The sun_path field is not an absolute path and fd is neither AT_FDCWD nor a file descriptor associated with a directory. SEE ALSO
bind(2), connectat(2), socket(2), unix(4) AUTHORS
The bindat was developed by Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pawel@dawidek.net> under sponsorship from the FreeBSD Foundation. BSD
February 13, 2013 BSD
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bind(2) System Calls Manual bind(2) Name bind - bind a name to a socket Syntax #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/socket.h> bind(s, name, namelen) int s; struct sockaddr *name; int namelen; #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/socket.h> #include <sys/un.h> bind(s, name, namelen) int s; struct sockaddr_un *name; int namelen; Description The system call assigns a name to an unnamed socket. When a socket is created with the call, it exists in a name space (address family) but has no name assigned. The system call requests that name be assigned to the socket. 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 the system call. The sockaddr argument specifies a general address family. The sockaddr_un argument specifies an address family in the UNIX domain. The rules used in name binding vary between communication domains. Consult the reference pages in the ULTRIX Reference Pages Section 4: Special Files for detailed information. Return Value If the is successful, the call returns a 0 value. A return value of -1 indicates an error, which is further specified in the global vari- able errno. Diagnostics The call fails under the following conditions: [EBADF] S is an invalid 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. [EACCESS] 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 exceeds 255 characters, or an entire pathname exceeds 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] A null pathname was specified. See Also connect(2), getsockname(2), listen(2), socket(2), unlink(2) bind(2)