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BIND(2)			    BSD System Calls Manual		       BIND(2)

NAME
     bindbind a name to a socket

LIBRARY
     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <sys/socket.h>

     int
     bind(int s, const struct sockaddr *name, socklen_t 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.  namelen
     indicates the amount of space pointed to by name, in bytes.

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.	 Con‐
     sult 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
			machine.

     [EADDRINUSE]	The specified address is already in use.

     [EINVAL]		The socket is already bound to an address.

     [EINVAL]		The family of the socket and that requested in
			name->sa_family are not equivalent.

     [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
			address space.

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

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

     [ENAMETOOLONG]	A component of a pathname exceeded {NAME_MAX} charac‐
			ters, or an entire path name exceeded {PATH_MAX} char‐
			acters.

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

     [ELOOP]		Too many symbolic links were encountered in translat‐
			ing 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), getsockname(2), listen(2), socket(2)

HISTORY
     The bind() function call appeared in 4.2BSD.

SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
     bind() was changed in NetBSD 1.4 to prevent the binding of a socket to
     the same port as an existing socket when all of the following is true:
	   ·   either of the existing or new addresses is INADDR_ANY,
	   ·   the uid of the new socket is not root, and the uids of the cre‐
	       ators of the sockets are different,
	   ·   the address is not a multicast address, and
	   ·   both sockets are not bound to INADDR_ANY with SO_REUSEPORT set.

     This prevents an attack where a user could bind to a port with the host's
     IP address (after setting SO_REUSEADDR) and ‘steal’ packets destined for
     a server that bound to the same port with INADDR_ANY.

     bind() was changed in NetBSD 4.0 to honor the user's umask when binding
     sockets in the local domain.  This was done to match the behavior of
     other operating systems, including FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Linux, and to
     improve compatibility with some third-party software.  Please note that
     this behavior is not portable.  If you must bind a local socket in a por‐
     table and secure way, you need to make a directory with tight permissions
     and then create the socket inside it.

BSD				August 30, 2005				   BSD
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