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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:54:44 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:54:44 -0400 |
| commit | a9157ce950dfe2fc30795d43b9d79b9d1bffc48b (patch) | |
| tree | 9df484304b560466d145e662c1c254ff0e9ae0ba /static/openbsd/man2/getsockname.2 | |
| parent | 160aa82b2d39c46ad33723d7d909cb4972efbb03 (diff) | |
docs: Added All OpenBSD Manuals
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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man2/getsockname.2 b/static/openbsd/man2/getsockname.2 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..bd681a44 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man2/getsockname.2 @@ -0,0 +1,162 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: getsockname.2,v 1.32 2022/09/11 06:38:11 jmc Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: getsockname.2,v 1.6 1995/10/12 15:41:00 jtc Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 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. +.\" +.\" @(#)getsockname.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: September 11 2022 $ +.Dt GETSOCKNAME 2 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm getsockname +.Nd get socket name +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In sys/socket.h +.Ft int +.Fn getsockname "int s" "struct sockaddr *name" "socklen_t *namelen" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Fn getsockname +returns the locally bound address information for a specified socket. +.Pp +Common uses of this function are as follows: +.Bl -bullet +.It +When +.Xr bind 2 +is called with a port number of 0 (indicating the kernel should pick +an ephemeral port), +.Fn getsockname +is used to retrieve the kernel-assigned port number. +.It +When a process calls +.Xr bind 2 +on a wildcard IP address, +.Fn getsockname +is used to retrieve the local IP address for the connection. +.It +When a function wishes to know the address family of a socket, +.Fn getsockname +can be used. +.El +.Pp +.Fn getsockname +takes three parameters: +.Pp +.Fa s +contains the file descriptor for the socket to be looked up. +.Pp +.Fa name +points to a +.Vt sockaddr +structure which will hold the resulting address information. +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 (such as newer protocol families) the new +structure sockaddr_storage exists. +.Vt sockaddr_storage +is large enough to hold any of the other sockaddr_* variants. +On return, it should be cast to the correct sockaddr type, +according to the current protocol family. +.Pp +.Fa namelen +indicates the amount of space pointed to by +.Fa name , +in bytes. +Upon return, +.Fa namelen +is set to the actual size of the returned address information. +.Pp +If the address of the destination socket for a given socket connection is +needed, the +.Xr getpeername 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 +On success, +.Fn getsockname +returns a 0, 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 +If +.Fn getsockname +fails, +.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 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 getpeername 2 , +.Xr socket 2 , +.Xr getpeereid 3 +.Sh STANDARDS +The +.Fn getsockname +function conforms to +.St -p1003.1-2008 . +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Fn getsockname +function call appeared in +.Bx 4.2 . |
