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1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California.
        !             2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
        !             3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
        !             4: .\"
        !             5: .\"    @(#)bind.2      6.6 (Berkeley) 5/22/86
        !             6: .\"
        !             7: .TH BIND 2 "May 22, 1986"
        !             8: .UC 5
        !             9: .SH NAME
        !            10: bind \- bind a name to a socket
        !            11: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            12: .nf
        !            13: .ft B
        !            14: #include <sys/types.h>
        !            15: #include <sys/socket.h>
        !            16: .PP
        !            17: .ft B
        !            18: bind(s, name, namelen)
        !            19: int s;
        !            20: struct sockaddr *name;
        !            21: int namelen;
        !            22: .fi
        !            23: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            24: .I Bind
        !            25: assigns a name to an unnamed socket.
        !            26: When a socket is created 
        !            27: with
        !            28: .IR socket (2)
        !            29: it exists in a name space (address family)
        !            30: but has no name assigned.
        !            31: .I Bind
        !            32: requests that
        !            33: .IR name 
        !            34: be assigned to the socket.
        !            35: .SH NOTES
        !            36: Binding a name in the UNIX domain creates a socket in the file
        !            37: system that must be deleted by the caller when it is no longer
        !            38: needed (using
        !            39: .IR unlink (2)).
        !            40: .PP
        !            41: The rules used in name binding vary between communication domains.
        !            42: Consult the manual entries in section 4 for detailed information.
        !            43: .SH "RETURN VALUE
        !            44: If the bind is successful, a 0 value is returned.
        !            45: A return value of \-1 indicates an error, which is
        !            46: further specified in the global \fIerrno\fP.
        !            47: .SH ERRORS
        !            48: The \fIbind\fP call will fail if:
        !            49: .TP 20
        !            50: [EBADF]
        !            51: \fIS\fP is not a valid descriptor.
        !            52: .TP 20
        !            53: [ENOTSOCK]
        !            54: \fIS\fP is not a socket.
        !            55: .TP 20
        !            56: [EADDRNOTAVAIL]
        !            57: The specified address is not available from the local machine.
        !            58: .TP 20
        !            59: [EADDRINUSE]
        !            60: The specified address is already in use.
        !            61: .TP 20
        !            62: [EINVAL]
        !            63: The socket is already bound to an address.
        !            64: .TP 20
        !            65: [EACCES]
        !            66: The requested address is protected, and the current user
        !            67: has inadequate permission to access it.
        !            68: .TP 20
        !            69: [EFAULT]
        !            70: The \fIname\fP parameter is not in a valid part of the user
        !            71: address space.
        !            72: .PP
        !            73: The following errors are specific to binding names in the UNIX domain.
        !            74: .TP 15
        !            75: [ENOTDIR]
        !            76: A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
        !            77: .TP 15
        !            78: [EINVAL]
        !            79: The pathname contains a character with the high-order bit set.
        !            80: .TP 15
        !            81: [ENAMETOOLONG]
        !            82: A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters,
        !            83: or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
        !            84: .TP 15
        !            85: [ENOENT]
        !            86: A prefix component of the path name does not exist.
        !            87: .TP 15
        !            88: [ELOOP]
        !            89: Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
        !            90: .TP 15
        !            91: [EIO]
        !            92: An I/O error occurred while making the directory entry or allocating the inode.
        !            93: .TP 15
        !            94: [EROFS]
        !            95: The name would reside on a read-only file system.
        !            96: .TP 15
        !            97: [EISDIR]
        !            98: A null pathname was specified.
        !            99: .SH SEE ALSO
        !           100: connect(2), listen(2), socket(2), getsockname(2)

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