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BINDRESVPORT(3) 	     Library Functions Manual		 BINDRESVPORT(3)

NAME
     bindresvport, bindresvport_sa -- bind a socket to a privileged IP port

LIBRARY
     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <sys/types.h>
     #include <rpc/rpc.h>

     int
     bindresvport(int sd, struct sockaddr_in *sin);

     int
     bindresvport_sa(int sd, struct sockaddr *sa);

DESCRIPTION
     The  bindresvport()  and  bindresvport_sa()  functions  are  used to bind a
     socket descriptor to a privileged IP port, that is, a port  number  in  the
     range 0-1023.

     If  sin is a pointer to a struct sockaddr_in then the appropriate fields in
     the structure should be defined.  Note that sin->sin_family  must	be  ini-
     tialized	to  the  address  family  of  the  socket,  passed  by	sd.   If
     sin->sin_port is `0' then an anonymous port (in the range 600-1023) will be
     chosen, and if bind(2) is successful, the sin->sin_port will be updated  to
     contain the allocated port.

     If sin is the NULL pointer, an anonymous port will be allocated (as above).
     However, there is no way for bindresvport() to return the allocated port in
     this case.

     Only  root can bind to a privileged port; this call will fail for any other
     users.

     Function prototype of bindresvport() is  biased  to  AF_INET  socket.   The
     bindresvport_sa()	function  acts exactly the same, with more neutral func-
     tion prototype.  Note that both functions behave exactly the same, and both
     support AF_INET6 sockets as well as AF_INET sockets.

RETURN VALUES
     The bindresvport() function returns the value 0  if  successful;  otherwise
     the  value  -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate
     the error.

ERRORS
     [EPFNOSUPPORT]	If second argument was supplied, and address family  did
			not match between arguments.

     The  bindresvport() function may also fail and set errno for any of the er-
     rors specified for the calls bind(2), getsockopt(2), or setsockopt(2).

SEE ALSO
     bind(2), getsockopt(2), setsockopt(2), ip(4)

FreeBSD 14.3			November 22, 1987		 BINDRESVPORT(3)

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