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 *namelen);

DESCRIPTION

getsockname() returns the current name for socket s. The namelen parameter should be initialized to indicate the amount of space pointed to by name. On return it contains the actual size in bytes of the name returned.

RETURN VALUES

If successful, getsockname() returns 0; otherwise it returns -1 and sets errno to indicate the error.

ERRORS

The call succeeds unless:

 

 

[EBADF]

The argument s is not a valid file descriptor.

 

 

[ENOMEM]

There was insufficient memory available for the operation to complete.

 

 

[ENOSR]

There were insufficient STREAMS resources available for the operation to complete.

 

 

[ENOTSOCK]

The argument s is not a socket.

MT-LEVEL

Safe

SEE ALSO

bind(3C), getpeername(3C), sockaddr(3C), socket(3C), attributes(5)