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GETSOCKNAME(2)		      System Calls Manual		GETSOCKNAME(2)

NAME
       getsockname -- get socket name

LIBRARY
       Standard	C Library (libc, -lc)

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

       int
       getsockname(int	   s,	  struct    sockaddr	*    restrict	 name,
	   socklen_t * restrict	namelen);

DESCRIPTION
       The getsockname() system	call returns the current name for  the	speci-
       fied  socket.   The  namelen argument should be initialized to indicate
       the amount of space pointed to by name.	On return it contains the  ac-
       tual size of the	name returned (in bytes).

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

ERRORS
       The call	succeeds unless:

       [EBADF]		  The argument s is not	a valid	descriptor.

       [ECONNRESET]	  The connection has been reset	by the peer.

       [EINVAL]		  The value of the namelen argument is not valid.

       [ENOTSOCK]	  The argument s is a file, not	a socket.

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

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

SEE ALSO
       bind(2),	getpeername(2),	socket(2)

HISTORY
       The getsockname() system	call appeared in 4.2BSD.

BUGS
       Names  bound  to	 sockets  in  the  UNIX	  domain   are	 inaccessible;
       getsockname() returns a zero length name.

FreeBSD	13.2			 June 4, 1993			GETSOCKNAME(2)
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