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        !            18: .\"    @(#)bind.2      6.8 (Berkeley) 6/23/90
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        !            20: .TH BIND 2 "June 23, 1990"
        !            21: .UC 5
        !            22: .SH NAME
        !            23: bind \- bind a name to a socket
        !            24: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            25: .nf
        !            26: .ft B
        !            27: #include <sys/types.h>
        !            28: #include <sys/socket.h>
        !            29: .PP
        !            30: .ft B
        !            31: bind(s, name, namelen)
        !            32: int s;
        !            33: struct sockaddr *name;
        !            34: int namelen;
        !            35: .fi
        !            36: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            37: .I Bind
        !            38: assigns a name to an unnamed socket.
        !            39: When a socket is created 
        !            40: with
        !            41: .IR socket (2)
        !            42: it exists in a name space (address family)
        !            43: but has no name assigned.
        !            44: .I Bind
        !            45: requests that
        !            46: .IR name 
        !            47: be assigned to the socket.
        !            48: .SH NOTES
        !            49: Binding a name in the UNIX domain creates a socket in the file
        !            50: system that must be deleted by the caller when it is no longer
        !            51: needed (using
        !            52: .IR unlink (2)).
        !            53: .PP
        !            54: The rules used in name binding vary between communication domains.
        !            55: Consult the manual entries in section 4 for detailed information.
        !            56: .SH "RETURN VALUE
        !            57: If the bind is successful, a 0 value is returned.
        !            58: A return value of \-1 indicates an error, which is
        !            59: further specified in the global \fIerrno\fP.
        !            60: .SH ERRORS
        !            61: The \fIbind\fP call will fail if:
        !            62: .TP 20
        !            63: [EBADF]
        !            64: \fIS\fP is not a valid descriptor.
        !            65: .TP 20
        !            66: [ENOTSOCK]
        !            67: \fIS\fP is not a socket.
        !            68: .TP 20
        !            69: [EADDRNOTAVAIL]
        !            70: The specified address is not available from the local machine.
        !            71: .TP 20
        !            72: [EADDRINUSE]
        !            73: The specified address is already in use.
        !            74: .TP 20
        !            75: [EINVAL]
        !            76: The socket is already bound to an address.
        !            77: .TP 20
        !            78: [EACCES]
        !            79: The requested address is protected, and the current user
        !            80: has inadequate permission to access it.
        !            81: .TP 20
        !            82: [EFAULT]
        !            83: The \fIname\fP parameter is not in a valid part of the user
        !            84: address space.
        !            85: .PP
        !            86: The following errors are specific to binding names in the UNIX domain.
        !            87: .TP 15
        !            88: [ENOTDIR]
        !            89: A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
        !            90: .TP 15
        !            91: [EINVAL]
        !            92: The pathname contains a character with the high-order bit set.
        !            93: .TP 15
        !            94: [ENAMETOOLONG]
        !            95: A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters,
        !            96: or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
        !            97: .TP 15
        !            98: [ENOENT]
        !            99: A prefix component of the path name does not exist.
        !           100: .TP 15
        !           101: [ELOOP]
        !           102: Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
        !           103: .TP 15
        !           104: [EIO]
        !           105: An I/O error occurred while making the directory entry or allocating the inode.
        !           106: .TP 15
        !           107: [EROFS]
        !           108: The name would reside on a read-only file system.
        !           109: .TP 15
        !           110: [EISDIR]
        !           111: A null pathname was specified.
        !           112: .SH SEE ALSO
        !           113: connect(2), listen(2), socket(2), getsockname(2)

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