Open System Services System Calls Reference Manual (G06.29+, H06.08+, J06.03+)

System Functions (f - i) getpeername(2)

• The connection was forcibly closed by the peer socket.

The socket can only be closed.

[EFAULT] A user-supplied memory buffer cannot be accessed or written.

[EINVAL] The socket has been shut down.

[ENOBUFS] There were not enough system resources available to complete the call. A retry

at a later time might succeed.

[ENOENT] The socket is either an AF_UNIX Release 1 datagram socket or an AF_UNIX

Release 2 datagram socket in compatibility mode and one of these conditions

occurred:

• The underlying ﬁle of the peer socket speciﬁed in the address parameter

was renamed.

• The underlying ﬁle of the peer socket specﬁed in the address parameter

was unlinked.

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

succeed.

[ENOTCONN] The socket is not connected or has not had the peer socket previously speciﬁed.

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

[EOPNOTSUPP]

The operation is not supported for the protocol of the socket speciﬁed by the

socket parameter.

RELATED INFORMATION

Functions: accept(2), bind(2), getsockname(2), socket(2).

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE

The HP implementation does not return the errno value [ENOSR].

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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