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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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