BIND(2)                          System Calls                          BIND(2)

NAME

       bind - bind a name to a socket

SYNOPSIS

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

       int bind (int s, struct sockaddr *name, int namelen);

DESCRIPTION

       Bind  assigns  a  name  to an unnamed socket.  When a socket is created
       with socket(2) it exists in a name space (address family)  but  has  no
       name assigned.  Bind requests that name be assigned to the socket.

NOTES

       Binding  a  name in the UNIX domain creates a socket in the file system
       that must be deleted by the caller when it is no longer  needed  (using
       unlink(2)).

       The  rules  used  in  name  binding vary between communication domains.
       Consult the manual entries in section 4 for detailed information.

RETURN VALUES

       If the bind is successful, a 0 value is returned.  A return value of -1
       indicates an error, which is further specified in the global errno.

ERRORS

       The bind call will fail if:

              EBADF  S is not a valid descriptor.

              ENOTSOCK
                     S is not a socket.

              EADDRNOTAVAIL
                     The specified address is not available from the local ma‐
                     chine.

              EADDRINUSE
                     The specified address is already in use.

              EINVAL The socket is already bound to an address.

              EACCES The requested address is protected, and the current  user
                     has inadequate permission to access it.

              EFAULT The name parameter is not in a valid part of the user ad‐
                     dress space.

       The following errors are specific to binding names in the UNIX domain.

              ENOTDIR
                     A component of the path prefix is not a directory.

              EINVAL The pathname contains a character with the high-order bit
                     set.

              ENAMETOOLONG
                     A  component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters, or an
                     entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.

              ENOENT A prefix component of the path name does not exist.

              ELOOP  Too many symbolic links were encountered  in  translating
                     the pathname.

              EIO    An I/O error occurred while making the directory entry or
                     allocating the inode.

              EROFS  The name would reside on a read-only file system.

              EISDIR An empty pathname was specified.

SEE ALSO

       connect(2), listen(2), socket(2), getsockname(2)

HISTORY

       The bind function call appeared in 4.2BSD.  The first appearance in GNO
       was in v2.0.5.



GNO                             16 January 1997                        BIND(2)