bindresvport

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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 de-
       scriptor sockfd to a privileged anonymous IP port, that is, a port num-
       ber 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  allo-
       cated.

       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 ob-
       tained 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 ad-
       dition, 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  at-
       tributes(7).

       +---------------+---------------+-------------------------+
       |Interface      | Attribute     | Value                   |
       +---------------+---------------+-------------------------+
       |bindresvport() | Thread safety | glibc >= 2.17: MT-Safe  |
       |               |               | glibc < 2.17: MT-Unsafe |
       +---------------+---------------+-------------------------+
       The  bindresvport()  function  uses a static variable that was not pro-
       tected 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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                                  2017-09-15                   BINDRESVPORT(3)