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This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface

Application Usage

       The size of sun_path has intentionally been left undefined. This is because different implementations use
       different  sizes.  For  example,  4.3  BSD uses a size of 108, and 4.4 BSD uses a size of 104. Since most
       implementations originate from BSD versions, the size is typically in the range 92 to 108.

       Applications  should  not  assume  a  particular  length  for  sun_path  or  assume  that  it  can   hold
       {_POSIX_PATH_MAX} bytes (256).

       Although  applications  are  required  to  initialize  all members (including any non-standard ones) of a
       sockaddr_in6 structure (see <netinet_in.h>), the same is not  required  for  the  sockaddr_un  structure,
       since  historically  many  applications only initialized the standard members. Despite this, applications
       are encouraged to initialize sockaddr_un structures in a manner similar to the required initialization of
       sockaddr_in6 structures.

Description

       The  <sys/un.h> header shall define the sockaddr_un structure, which shall include at least the following
       members:

           sa_family_t  sun_family  Address family.
           char         sun_path[]  Socket pathname.

       The sockaddr_un structure is used to store addresses for UNIX domain  sockets.   Pointers  to  this  type
       shall be cast by applications to structsockaddr* for use with socket functions.

       The <sys/un.h> header shall define the sa_family_t type as described in <sys/socket.h>.

       Thefollowingsectionsareinformative.

Future Directions

       None.

Name

       sys/un.h — definitions for UNIX domain sockets

Prolog

       This  manual  page  is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual.  The Linux implementation of this interface
       may differ (consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the  interface
       may not be implemented on Linux.

Rationale

       None.

See Also

<netinet_in.h>, <sys_socket.h>

       The System Interfaces volume of POSIX.1‐2017, bind(), socket(), socketpair()

Synopsis

       #include <sys/un.h>

See Also