HP-UX Reference (11i v1 05/09) - 2 System Calls (vol 5)

bind(2) bind(2)

[EBADF] s is not a valid ﬁle descriptor.

[EDESTADDRREQ] No addr parameter was speciﬁed.

[EFAULT] addr is not a valid pointer.

[EINVAL] The socket is already bound to an address, the socket has been shut down,

addrlen is a bad value, or an attempt was made to

bind() an AF_UNIX

socket to an NFS-mounted (remote) name.

AF_CCITT: The protocol-ID length is negative or greater than 8, the X.121

address string contains an illegal character, or the X.121 address string is

greater than 15 digits long.

AF_VME_LINK: An explicit bind can be made only to a well-known port.

[ENETDOWN] The x25ifname ﬁeld name speciﬁes an interface that was shut down, or never

initialized, or whose Level 2 protocol indicates that the link is not working:

Wires might be broken, the interface hoods on the modem are broken, the

modem failed, the phone connection failed (this error can be returned by

AF_CCITT only), noise interfered with the line for a long period of time.

[ENETUNREACH] The X.25 Level 2 protocol is down. The X.25 link is not working: Wires might

be broken, or connections are loose on the interface hoods at the modem, the

modem failed, or noise interfered with the line for an extremely long period of

time.

[ENOBUFS] No buffer space is available. The

bind() cannot complete.

[ENOMEM] No memory is available. The bind() cannot complete.

[ENODEV] The x25ifname ﬁeld name speciﬁes a nonexistent interface. (This error can be

returned by AF_CCITT only.)

[ENOTSOCK] s is a valid ﬁle descriptor, but it is not a socket.

[EOPNOTSUPP] The socket referenced by s does not support address binding.

[EISCONN] The connection is already bound. (AF_VME_LINK.)

OBSOLESCENCE

Currently, the socklen_t and size_t types are the same size. This is compatible with both the UNIX

95 and UNIX 98 proﬁles. However, in a future release, socklen_t might be a different size, but that

should not adversely affect application behavior in this case. Applications may use socklen_t now. But

applications that need to be portable to the UNIX 95 proﬁle should follow the X/Open speciﬁcation (see

xopen_networking(7)).

FUTURE DIRECTION

Currently, the default behavior is the HP-UX BSD Sockets; however, it might be changed to X/Open

Sockets in a future release. At that time, any HP-UX BSD Sockets behavior that is incompatible with

X/Open Sockets might be obsoleted. Applications that conform to the X/Open speciﬁcation now will avoid

migration problems (see xopen_networking(7)).

AUTHOR

bind() was developed by HP and the University of California, Berkeley.