BINDRESVPORT
Updated: 2015-03-02
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NAME
bindresvport - bind a socket to a privileged IP portSYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h> #include <netinet/in.h> int bindresvport(int sockfd, struct sockaddr_in *sin);
DESCRIPTION
bindresvport() is used to bind a socket descriptor to a privileged anonymous IP port, that is, a port number arbitrarily selected from the range 512 to 1023.
If the bind(2) performed by bindresvport() is successful, and sin is not NULL, then sin->sin_port returns the port number actually allocated.
sin can be NULL, in which case sin->sin_family is implicitly taken to be AF_INET. However, in this case, bindresvport() has no way to return the port number actually allocated. (This information can later be obtained using getsockname(2).)
RETURN VALUE
bindresvport() returns 0 on success; otherwise -1 is returned and errno set to indicate the cause of the error.ERRORS
bindresvport() can fail for any of the same reasons as bind(2). In addition, the following errors may occur:- EACCES
- The caller did not have superuser privilege (to be precise: the CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE capability is required).
- EADDRINUSE
- All privileged ports are in use.
- EAFNOSUPPORT (EPFNOSUPPORT in glibc 2.7 and earlier)
- sin is not NULL and sin->sin_family is not AF_INET.
ATTRIBUTES
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).Interface | Attribute | Value |
bindresvport() | Thread safety |
glibc >= 2.17: MT-Safe
glibc < 2.17: MT-Unsafe |
The bindresvport() function uses a static variable that was not protected by a lock before glibc 2.17, rendering the function MT-Unsafe.
CONFORMING TO
Not in POSIX.1. Present on the BSDs, Solaris, and many other systems.NOTES
Unlike some bindresvport() implementations, the glibc implementation ignores any value that the caller supplies in sin->sin_port.SEE ALSO
bind(2), getsockname(2)COLOPHON
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- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- RETURN VALUE
- ERRORS
- ATTRIBUTES
- CONFORMING TO
- NOTES
- SEE ALSO
- COLOPHON