bind function to assign an address to a socket. The
bind is in the header file sys/socket.h.
For examples of use, see Local Socket Example, or see Inet Example.
Preliminary: | MT-Safe | AS-Safe | AC-Safe | See POSIX Safety Concepts.
bind function assigns an address to the socket
socket. The addr and length arguments specify the
address; the detailed format of the address depends on the namespace.
The first part of the address is always the format designator, which
specifies a namespace, and says that the address is in the format of
The return value is
0 on success and
-1 on failure. The
errno error conditions are defined for this function:
The socket argument is not a valid file descriptor.
The descriptor socket is not a socket.
The specified address is not available on this machine.
Some other socket is already using the specified address.
The socket socket already has an address.
You do not have permission to access the requested address. (In the
Internet domain, only the super-user is allowed to specify a port number
in the range 0 through
IPPORT_RESERVED minus one; see
Additional conditions may be possible depending on the particular namespace of the socket.