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Newer page: version 4 Last edited on Thursday, December 23, 2004 8:13:47 pm by NickJohnson
Older page: version 2 Last edited on Tuesday, December 31, 2002 2:10:03 am by PerryLorier Revert
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 SVr4, 4.4BSD (the getsockname(2) function call appeared in 4.2BSD). SVr4 documents additional [ENOMEM] and [ENOSR] error codes. 
  
 !!NOTE 
 The third argument of getsockname(2) is in reality an `int *' (and this is what BSD 4.* and libc4 and libc5 have). Some POSIX confusion resulted in the present socklen_t. The draft standard has not been adopted yet, but glibc2 already follows it and also has socklen_t. See also accept(2). 
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+[NickJohnson] adds: If getsockname is called on an unbound inet socket, ((struct sockaddr_in *)name)->sin_family will be AF_INET, and ((struct sockaddr_in *)name)->sin_addr.s_addr will be INADDR_ANY.  
  
 !!SEE ALSO 
 bind(2), socket(2) 
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