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BINDAT(2) FreeBSD System Calls Manual BINDAT(2)
NAME
bindat - assign a local protocol address to a socket
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
int
bindat(int fd, int s, const struct sockaddr *addr, socklen_t addrlen);
DESCRIPTION
The bindat() system call assigns the local protocol address to a socket.
When passed the special value AT_FDCWD in the fd parameter, the behavior
is identical to a call to bind(2). Otherwise, bindat() works like the
bind(2) system call with two exceptions:
1. It is limited to sockets in the PF_LOCAL domain.
2. If the file path stored in the sun_path field of the
sockaddr_un structure is a relative path, it is located
relative to the directory associated with the file descriptor
fd.
RETURN VALUES
The bindat() function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise the
value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the
error.
ERRORS
The bindat() system call may fail with the same errors as the bind(2)
system call or with the following errors:
[EBADF] The sun_path field does not specify an absolute path
and the fd argument is neither AT_FDCWD nor a valid
file descriptor.
[ENOTDIR] The sun_path field is not an absolute path and fd is
neither AT_FDCWD nor a file descriptor associated with
a directory.
SEE ALSO
bind(2), connectat(2), socket(2), unix(4)
AUTHORS
The bindat was developed by Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pawel@dawidek.net> under
sponsorship from the FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11 February 13, 2013 FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11