getsockname - get socket name
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Description
getsockname() returns the current address to which the socket sockfd is bound, in the buffer pointed to
by addr. The addrlen argument should be initialized to indicate the amount of space (in bytes) pointed
to by addr. On return it contains the actual size of the socket address.
The returned address is truncated if the buffer provided is too small; in this case, addrlen will return
a value greater than was supplied to the call.
Errors
EBADF The argument sockfd is not a valid file descriptor.
EFAULT The addr argument points to memory not in a valid part of the process address space.
EINVALaddrlen is invalid (e.g., is negative).
ENOBUFS
Insufficient resources were available in the system to perform the operation.
ENOTSOCK
The file descriptor sockfd does not refer to a socket.
History
POSIX.1-2001, SVr4, 4.4BSD (first appeared in 4.2BSD).
Library
Standard C library (libc, -lc)
Name
getsockname - get socket name
Return Value
On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set to indicate the error.
See Also
bind(2), socket(2), getifaddrs(3), ip(7), socket(7), unix(7)
Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-05-02 getsockname(2)
Standards
POSIX.1-2008.
Synopsis
#include<sys/socket.h>intgetsockname(intsockfd,structsockaddr*restrictaddr,socklen_t*restrictaddrlen);
