HP-UX Reference (11i v2 04/09) - 3 Library Functions N-Z (vol 7)

netdir(3N) netdir(3N)

ND_CHECK_RESERVEDPORT

Used to verify that the address corresponds to a reserved port, if that

concept exists for the transport provider. ﬁldes is not used.

pointer_to_args is a pointer to a

netbuf structure that contains the

address. This option returns 40 only if the address speciﬁed in

pointer_to_args is reserved.

RETURN VALUE

The

netdir_perror()

routine prints an error message on the standard output stating why one of the

name-to-address mapping routines failed. The error message is preceded by the string given as an argu-

ment.

The

netdir_sperror()

routine returns a string containing an error message stating why one of the

name-to-address mapping routines failed.

netdir_sperror()

returns a pointer to a buffer which contains the error message string. This buffer

is overwritten on each call. In multithreaded applications, this buffer is implemented as thread-speciﬁc

data.