Manpages - bindresvport.3

bindresvport - bind a socket to a privileged IP port

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

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

*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).)

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

*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.

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.

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

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

*bind*(2), *getsockname*(2)

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