NAME¶

bindresvport - bind a socket to a privileged IP port

SYNOPSIS¶

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>

int bindresvport(int sockfd, struct sockaddr_in *sin);

DESCRIPTION¶

bindresvport() is used to bind the socket referred to by the file descriptor sockfd to a privileged anonymous IP port, that is, a port number arbitrarily selected from the range 512 to 1023.

If the bind(2) performed by bindresvport() is successful, and sin is not NULL, then sin->sin_port returns the port number actually allocated.

sin can be NULL, in which case sin->sin_family is implicitly taken to be AF_INET. However, in this case, bindresvport() has no way to return the port number actually allocated. (This information can later be obtained using getsockname(2).)

RETURN VALUE¶

bindresvport() returns 0 on success; otherwise -1 is returned and errno set to indicate the cause of the error.

ERRORS¶

bindresvport() can fail for any of the same reasons as bind(2). In addition, the following errors may occur:

EACCES

The calling process was not privileged (on Linux: the calling process did not have the CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE capability in the user namespace governing its network namespace).

EADDRINUSE

All privileged ports are in use.

EAFNOSUPPORT (EPFNOSUPPORT in glibc 2.7 and earlier)

sin is not NULL and sin->sin_family is not AF_INET.

ATTRIBUTES¶

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

The bindresvport() function uses a static variable that was not protected by a lock before glibc 2.17, rendering the function MT-Unsafe.

CONFORMING TO¶

Not in POSIX.1. Present on the BSDs, Solaris, and many other systems.

NOTES¶

Unlike some bindresvport() implementations, the glibc implementation ignores any value that the caller supplies in sin->sin_port.

SEE ALSO¶

bind(2), getsockname(2)

COLOPHON¶

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