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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:55:15 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:55:15 -0400 |
| commit | 253e67c8b3a72b3a4757fdbc5845297628db0a4a (patch) | |
| tree | adf53b66087aa30dfbf8bf391a1dadb044c3bf4d /static/netbsd/man2/bind.2 | |
| parent | a9157ce950dfe2fc30795d43b9d79b9d1bffc48b (diff) | |
docs: Added All NetBSD Manuals
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diff --git a/static/netbsd/man2/bind.2 b/static/netbsd/man2/bind.2 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b38ce66a --- /dev/null +++ b/static/netbsd/man2/bind.2 @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: bind.2,v 1.32 2022/06/28 20:24:08 rillig Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)bind.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 +.\" +.Dd June 28, 2022 +.Dt BIND 2 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm bind +.Nd bind a name to a socket +.Sh LIBRARY +.Lb libc +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In sys/socket.h +.Ft int +.Fn bind "int s" "const struct sockaddr *name" "socklen_t namelen" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Fn bind +assigns a name to an unnamed socket. +When a socket is created +with +.Xr socket 2 +it exists in a name space (address family) +but has no name assigned. +.Fn bind +requests that +.Fa name +be assigned to the socket. +.Fa namelen +indicates the amount of space pointed to by +.Fa name , +in bytes. +.Sh NOTES +Binding a name in the +.Ux +domain creates a socket in the file +system that must be deleted by the caller when it is no longer +needed (using +.Xr unlink 2 ) . +.Pp +The rules used in name binding vary between communication domains. +Consult the manual entries in section 4 for detailed information. +.Sh 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 +.Va errno . +.Sh ERRORS +The +.Fn bind +call will fail if: +.Bl -tag -width Er +.It Bq Er EACCES +The requested address is protected, and the current user +has inadequate permission to access it. +.It Bq Er EADDRINUSE +The specified address is already in use. +.It Bq Er EADDRNOTAVAIL +The specified address is not available from the local machine. +.It Bq Er EAFNOSUPPORT +Addresses in the specified address family cannot be used with this socket. +.It Bq Er EBADF +.Fa s +is not a valid descriptor. +.It Bq Er EFAULT +The +.Fa name +parameter is not in a valid part of the user +address space. +.It Bq Er EINVAL +The socket is already bound to an address; or +the family of the socket and that requested in +.Fa name->sa_family +are not equivalent. +.It Bq Er EINVAL +The socket address length passed was outside the allowable range. +.It Bq Er ENOTSOCK +.Fa s +is not a socket. +.El +.Pp +The following errors are specific to binding names in the +.Ux +domain. +.Bl -tag -width Er +.It Bq Er EIO +An I/O error occurred while making the directory entry or allocating the inode. +.It Bq Er EISDIR +An empty pathname was specified. +.It Bq Er ELOOP +Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname. +.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG +A component of a pathname exceeded +.Brq Dv NAME_MAX +characters, or an entire path name exceeded +.Brq Dv PATH_MAX +characters. +.It Bq Er ENOENT +A prefix component of the path name does not exist. +.It Bq Er ENOTDIR +A component of the path prefix is not a directory. +.It Bq Er EROFS +The name would reside on a read-only file system. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr connect 2 , +.Xr getsockname 2 , +.Xr listen 2 , +.Xr socket 2 , +.Xr inet 4 , +.Xr inet6 4 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Fn bind +function call appeared in +.Bx 4.2 . +.Sh SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS +.Fn bind +was changed in +.Nx 1.4 +to prevent the binding of a socket to the same port as an existing +socket when all of the following is true: +.Bl -bullet -compact -offset indent +.It +either of the existing or new addresses is +.Li INADDR_ANY , +.It +the uid of the new socket is not root, and +the uids of the creators of the sockets are different, +.It +the address is not a multicast address, and +.It +both sockets are not bound to +.Li INADDR_ANY +with +.Li SO_REUSEPORT +set. +.El +.Pp +This prevents an attack where a user could bind to a port with +the host's IP address (after setting +.Li SO_REUSEADDR ) +and +.Sq steal +packets destined for a server that bound to the +same port with +.Li INADDR_ANY . +.Pp +.Fn bind +was changed in +.Nx 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 +.Fx , +.Ox , +and +Linux, and to improve compatibility with some third-party software. +Please note that this behavior +.Em is not portable . +If you must bind a local socket in a portable and secure way, you need +to make a directory with tight permissions and then create the socket +inside it. |
