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+.\" $OpenBSD: getpeername.2,v 1.27 2022/09/11 06:38:11 jmc Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: getpeername.2,v 1.6 1995/10/12 15:40:56 jtc Exp $
+.\"
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+.\" @(#)getpeername.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
+.\"
+.Dd $Mdocdate: September 11 2022 $
+.Dt GETPEERNAME 2
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm getpeername
+.Nd get name of connected peer
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.In sys/socket.h
+.Ft int
+.Fn getpeername "int s" "struct sockaddr *name" "socklen_t *namelen"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Fn getpeername
+returns the address information of the peer connected to socket
+.Fa s .
+One common use occurs when a process inherits an open socket, such as
+TCP servers forked from
+.Xr inetd 8 .
+In this scenario,
+.Fn getpeername
+is used to determine the connecting client's IP address.
+.Pp
+.Fn getpeername
+takes three parameters:
+.Pp
+.Fa s
+contains the file descriptor of the socket whose peer should be looked up.
+.Pp
+.Fa name
+points to a
+.Vt sockaddr
+structure that will hold the address information for the connected peer.
+Normal use requires one to use a structure
+specific to the protocol family in use, such as
+.Vt sockaddr_in
+(IPv4) or
+.Vt sockaddr_in6
+(IPv6), cast to a (struct sockaddr *).
+.Pp
+For greater portability, especially with the newer protocol families, the new
+.Vt struct sockaddr_storage
+should be used.
+.Vt sockaddr_storage
+is large enough to hold any of the other sockaddr_* variants.
+On return, it can be cast to the correct sockaddr type,
+based on the protocol family contained in its ss_family field.
+.Pp
+.Fa namelen
+indicates the amount of space pointed to by
+.Fa name ,
+in bytes.
+.Pp
+If address information for the local end of the socket is required, the
+.Xr getsockname 2
+function should be used instead.
+.Pp
+If
+.Fa name
+does not point to enough space to hold the entire socket address, the
+result will be truncated to
+.Fa namelen
+bytes.
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+If the call succeeds, a 0 is returned and
+.Fa namelen
+is set to the actual size of the socket address returned in
+.Fa name .
+Otherwise,
+.Va errno
+is set and a value of \-1 is returned.
+.Sh ERRORS
+On failure,
+.Va errno
+is set to one of the following:
+.Bl -tag -width Er
+.It Bq Er EBADF
+The argument
+.Fa s
+is not a valid descriptor.
+.It Bq Er ENOTSOCK
+The argument
+.Fa s
+is a file, not a socket.
+.It Bq Er ENOTCONN
+The socket is not connected.
+.It Bq Er ENOBUFS
+Insufficient resources were available in the system
+to perform the operation.
+.It Bq Er EFAULT
+The
+.Fa name
+or
+.Fa namelen
+parameter points to memory not in a valid part of the
+process address space.
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr accept 2 ,
+.Xr bind 2 ,
+.Xr getsockname 2 ,
+.Xr socket 2 ,
+.Xr getpeereid 3
+.Sh STANDARDS
+The
+.Fn getpeername
+function conforms to
+.St -p1003.1-2008 .
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Fn getpeername
+function call appeared in
+.Bx 4.2 .