BIND(2) Linux Programmer's Manual BIND(2)
NAME
bind - bind a name to a socket
SYNOPSIS
#include<sys/types.h>
#include<sys/socket.h>
intbind(int sockfd,structsockaddr*my_addr,socklen_t addrlen);
DESCRIPTION
bind gives the socket sockfd the local address my_addr. my_addr is
addrlen bytes long. Traditionally, this is called "assigning a name to
a socket." When a socket is created with socket(2), it exists in a
name space (address family) but has no name assigned.
It is normally necessary to assign a local address using bind before a
SOCK_STREAM socket may receive connections (see accept(2)).
The rules used in name binding vary between address families. Consult
the manual entries in Section 7 for detailed information. For AF_INET
see ip(7), for AF_UNIX see unix(7), for AF_APPLETALK see ddp(7), for
AF_PACKET see packet(7), for AF_X25 see x25(7) and for AF_NETLINK see
netlink(7).
RETURNVALUE
On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is
set appropriately.
ERRORS
EBADF sockfd is not a valid descriptor.
EINVAL The socket is already bound to an address. This may change in
the future: see linux/unix/sock.c for details.
EACCES The address is protected, and the user is not the super-user.
ENOTSOCK
Argument is a descriptor for a file, not a socket.
The following errors are specific to UNIX domain (AF_UNIX) sockets:
EINVAL The addrlen is wrong, or the socket was not in the AF_UNIX fam-
ily.
EROFS The socket inode would reside on a read-only file system.
EFAULT my_addr points outside the user's accessible address space.
ENAMETOOLONG
my_addr is too long.
ENOENT The file does not exist.
ENOMEM Insufficient kernel memory was available.
ENOTDIR
A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
EACCES Search permission is denied on a component of the path prefix.
ELOOP Too many symbolic links were encountered in resolving my_addr.
BUGS
The transparent proxy options are not described.
CONFORMINGTO
SVr4, 4.4BSD (the bind function first appeared in BSD 4.2). SVr4 docu-
ments additional EADDRNOTAVAIL, EADDRINUSE, and ENOSR general error
conditions, and additional EIO and EISDIR Unix-domain error conditions.
NOTE
The third argument of bind is in reality an int (and this is what BSD
4.* and libc4 and libc5 have). Some POSIX confusion resulted in the
present socklen_t. See also accept(2).
SEEALSO
accept(2), connect(2), listen(2), socket(2), getsockname(2), ip(7),
socket(7)
Linux 2.2 1998-10-03 BIND(2)
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