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bindresvport

Section: C Library Functions (3)
Updated: 202-0-08
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NAME

bindresvport - bind a socket to a privileged IP port

LIBRARY

Standard C library (libc,~-lc)

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 is set to indicate 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).

Interface	Attribute	Value
bindresvport()	Thread safety	glibc >= 2.17: M-Safe; glibc < 2.17: M-Unsafe

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

VERSIONS

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.

STANDARDS

BSD.