Open System Services System Calls Reference Manual (G06.28+)

System Functions (a - d) bind(2)

• The sockaddr structure speciﬁes an empty string as a pathname.

[ENOBUFS] There was not enough buffer space available to complete the call. A retry at a

later time might succeed.

[ENOMEM] Required memory resources were not available. A retry at a later time might

succeed.

[ENOTDIR] The socket is in the AF_UNIX domain and a component of the pathname

speciﬁed in the sockaddr structure is not a directory.

[ENOTSOCK] The socket parameter does not refer to a socket.

[EOPNOTSUPP]

The socket type of the speciﬁed socket does not support binding to an address.

[EROFS] The socket is in the AF_UNIX domain and the speciﬁed name would reside on a

read-only ﬁleset.

RELATED INFORMATION

Functions: connect(2), getsockname(2), listen(2), socket(2).

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE

The XPG4 speciﬁcation allows certain behaviors to be implementer-deﬁned. The following are

choices of the HP implementation:

• The HP implementation does not return the errno values [EISCONN], [EISDIR],

[ENOSR], or [EPROTO].

The following are HP extensions to the XPG4 speciﬁcation:

• The errno value [ECONNRESET] can be returned when the transport provider process

is unavailable.

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