GETSOCKNAME(2)                                      Linux Programmer's Manual                                     GETSOCKNAME(2)



NAME
       getsockname - get socket name

SYNOPSIS
       #include <sys/socket.h>

       int getsockname(int sockfd, struct sockaddr *addr, socklen_t *addrlen);

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  con-
       tains 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.

RETURN VALUE
       On success, zero is returned.  On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately.

ERRORS
       EBADF  The argument sockfd is not a valid descriptor.

       EFAULT The addr argument points to memory not in a valid part of the process address space.

       EINVAL addrlen is invalid (e.g., is negative).

       ENOBUFS
              Insufficient resources were available in the system to perform the operation.

       ENOTSOCK
              The argument sockfd is a file, not a socket.

CONFORMING TO
       SVr4, 4.4BSD (the getsockname() function call appeared in 4.2BSD), POSIX.1-2001.

NOTES
       The third argument of getsockname() is in reality an int * (and this is what 4.x BSD and libc4  and  libc5  have).   Some
       POSIX confusion resulted in the present socklen_t, also used by glibc.  See also accept(2).

SEE ALSO
       bind(2), socket(2), getifaddrs(3), ip(7), socket(7), unix(7)

COLOPHON
       This  page  is  part of release 3.25 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project, and information about
       reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.



Linux                                                      2008-12-03                                             GETSOCKNAME(2)