bindresvport, bindresvport_sa — bind a socket to a privileged IP port
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Availability
The bindresvport() function is part of libtirpc.
Description
The bindresvport() and bindresvport_sa() functions are used to bind a socket descriptor to a privileged
IP port, that is, a port number in the range 0-1023.
If sin is a pointer to a structsockaddr_in then the appropriate fields in the structure should be
defined. Note that sin->sin_family must be initialized to the address family of the socket, passed by
sd. If sin->sin_port is ‘0’ then an anonymous port (in the range 600-1023) will be chosen, and if
bind(2) is successful, the sin->sin_port will be updated to contain the allocated port.
If sin is the NULL pointer, an anonymous port will be allocated (as above). However, there is no way for
bindresvport() to return the allocated port in this case.
Only root can bind to a privileged port; this call will fail for any other users.
Function prototype of bindresvport() is biased to AF_INET socket. The bindresvport_sa() function acts
exactly the same, with more neutral function prototype. Note that both functions behave exactly the
same, and both support AF_INET6 sockets as well as AF_INET sockets.
Errors
[EPFNOSUPPORT] If second argument was supplied, and address family did not match between arguments.
The bindresvport() function may also fail and set errno for any of the errors specified for the calls
bind(2), getsockopt(2), or setsockopt(2).
Name
bindresvport, bindresvport_sa — bind a socket to a privileged IP port
Return Values
The bindresvport() function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the
global variable errno is set to indicate the error.
See Also
bind(2), getsockopt(2), setsockopt(2) Debian November 22, 1987 BINDRESVPORT(3)
Synopsis
#include<sys/types.h>#include<rpc/rpc.h>intbindresvport(intsd, structsockaddr_in*sin);
intbindresvport_sa(intsd, structsockaddr*sa);
