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All Rights Reserved. .\" Portions Copyright (c) 1998, Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. .\" Copyright 2017 Joyent, Inc. .\" .Dd Sep 28, 2017 .Dt T_BIND 3NSL .Os .Sh NAME .Nm t_bind .Nd bind an address to a tansport endpoint .Sh SYNOPSIS .Lb libnsl .In xti.h .Ft int .Fo t_bind .Fa "int fd" .Fa "const struct t_bind *req" .Fa "stuct t_bind *ret" .Fc .Sh DESCRIPTION This routine is part of the .Sy XTI interfaces that evolved from the .Sy TLI interfaces. .Sy XTI represents the future evolution of these interfaces. However, .Sy TLI interfaces are supported for compatibility. When using a .Sy TLI routine that has the same name as an .Sy XTI routine, the .In tiuser.h header file must be used. Refer to the .Sx "TLI COMPATIBILITY" section for a description of differences between the two interfaces. .Pp This function associates a protocol address with the transport endpoint specified by .Fa fd and activates that transport endpoint. In connection mode, the transport provider may begin enqueuing incoming connect indications, or servicing a connection request on the transport endpoint. In connectionless-mode, the transport user may send or receive data units through the transport endpoint. .Pp The .Fa req and .Fa ret arguments point to a .Vt t_bind structure containing the following members: .Pp .Bl -item -offset indent -compact .It struct netbuf addr; .It unsigned qlen; .El .Pp The .Sy addr field of the .Vt t_bind structure specifies a protocol address, and the .Sy qlen field is used to indicate the maximum number of outstanding connection indications. .Pp The parameter .Fa req is used to request that an address, represented by the .Vt netbuf structure, be bound to the given transport endpoint. The parameter .Sy len specifies the number of bytes in the address, and .Sy buf points to the address buffer. For .Xr tcp 4P and .Xr udp 4P transports, .Sy buf points to a .Xr sockaddr 3SOCKET buffer \(em either .Vt "struct sockaddr_in" or .Vt "struct sockaddr_in6" (depending on if IPv4 or IPv6 is being used). The parameter .Sy maxlen has no meaning for the .Fa req argument. .Pp On return, .Fa ret contains an encoding for the address that the transport provider actually bound to the transport endpoint; if an address was specified in .Fa req , this will be an encoding of the same address. In .Fa ret , the user specifies .Sy maxlen , which is the maximum size of the address buffer, and .Sy buf which points to the buffer where the address is to be placed. On return, .Sy len specifies the number of bytes in the bound address, and .Sy buf points to the bound address. If .Sy maxlen equals zero, no address is returned. If .Sy maxlen is greater than zero and less than the length of the address, .Fn t_bind fails with .Va t_errno set to .Er TBUFOVFLW . .Pp If the requested address is not available, .Fn t_bind will return -1 with .Va t_errno set as appropriate. If no address is specified in .Fa req (the .Sy len field of .Sy addr in .Fa req is zero or .Fa req is .Sy NULL ) , the transport provider will assign an appropriate address to be bound, and will return that address in the .Sy addr field of .Fa ret . If the transport provider could not allocate an address, .Fn t_bind will fail with .Va t_errno set to .Er TNOADDR . .Pp The parameter .Fa req may be a null pointer if the user does not wish to specify an address to be bound. Here, the value of .Sy qlen is assumed to be zero, and the transport provider will assign an address to the transport endpoint. Similarly, .Fa ret may be a null pointer if the user does not care what address was bound by the provider and is not interested in the negotiated value of .Sy qlen . It is valid to set .Fa req and .Fa ret to the null pointer for the same call, in which case the provider chooses the address to bind to the transport endpoint and does not return that information to the user. .Pp The .Sy qlen field has meaning only when initializing a connection-mode service. It specifies the number of outstanding connection indications that the transport provider should support for the given transport endpoint. An outstanding connection indication is one that has been passed to the transport user by the transport provider but which has not been accepted or rejected. A value of .Sy qlen greater than zero is only meaningful when issued by a passive transport user that expects other users to call it. The value of .Sy qlen will be negotiated by the transport provider and may be changed if the transport provider cannot support the specified number of outstanding connection indications. However, this value of .Sy qlen will never be negotiated from a requested value greater than zero to zero. This is a requirement on transport providers; see .Sx WARNINGS below. On return, the .Sy qlen field in .Fa ret will contain the negotiated value. .Pp If .Fa fd refers to a connection-mode service, this function allows more than one transport endpoint to be bound to the same protocol address. It is not possible to bind more than one protocol address to the same transport endpoint. However, the transport provider must also support this capability. If a user binds more than one transport endpoint to the same protocol address, only one endpoint can be used to listen for connection indications associated with that protocol address. In other words, only one .Fn t_bind for a given protocol address may specify a value of .Sy qlen greater than zero. In this way, the transport provider can identify which transport endpoint should be notified of an incoming connection indication. If a user attempts to bind a protocol address to a second transport endpoint with a value of .Sy qlen greater than zero, .Fn t_bind will return -1 and set .Va t_errno to .Er TADDRBUSY . When a user accepts a connection on the transport endpoint that is being used as the listening endpoint, the bound protocol address will be found to be busy for the duration of the connection, until a .Xr t_unbind 3NSL or .Xr t_close 3NSL call has been issued. No other transport endpoints may be bound for listening on that same protocol address while that initial listening endpoint is active (in the data transfer phase or in the .Sy T_IDLE state). This will prevent more than one transport endpoint bound to the same protocol address from accepting connection indications. .Pp If .Fa fd refers to connectionless mode service, this function allows for more than one transport endpoint to be associated with a protocol address, where the underlying transport provider supports this capability (often in conjunction with value of a protocol-specific option). If a user attempts to bind a second transport endpoint to an already bound protocol address when such capability is not supported for a transport provider, .Fn t_bind will return -1 and set .Va t_errno to .Er TADDRBUSY . .Sh RETURN VALUES Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned. Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned and .Va t_errno is set to indicate an error. .Sh VALID STATES .Sy T_UNBND .Sh ERRORS On failure, .Va t_errno is set to one of the following: .Bl -tag -width Er .It Er TACCES The user does not have permission to use the specified address. .It Er TADDRBUSY The requested address is in use. .It Er TBADADDR The specified protocol address was in an incorrect format or contained illegal information. .It Er TBADF The specified file descriptor does not refer to a transport endpoint. .It Er TBUFOVFLW The number of bytes allowed for an incoming argument .Pa Sy maxlen is greater than 0 but not sufficient to store the value of that argument. The provider's state will change to .Sy T_IDLE and the information to be returned in .Fa ret will be discarded. .It Er TOUTSTATE The communications endpoint referenced by .Fa fd is not in one of the states in which a call to this function is valid. .It Er TNOADDR The transport provider could not allocate an address. .It Er TPROTO This error indicates that a communication problem has been detected between XTI and the transport provider for which there is no other suitable XTI error .Pq Va t_errno . .It Er TSYSERR A system error has occurred during execution of this function. .El .Sh TLI COMPATIBILITY The .Sy XTI and .Sy TLI interface definitions have common names but use different header files. This, and other semantic differences between the two interfaces are described in the subsections below. .Ss "Interface Header" The .Sy XTI interfaces use the header file, .In xti.h . .Sy TLI interfaces should .Em not use this header. They should use the header: .In tiuser.h .Ss "Address Bound" The user can compare the addresses in .Fa req and .Fa ret to determine whether the transport provider bound the transport endpoint to a different address than that requested. .Ss "Error Description Values" The .Va t_errno values .Er TPROTO and .Er TADDRBUSY can be set by the .Sy XTI interface but cannot be set by the .Sy TLI interface. .Pp A .Va t_errno value that this routine can return under different circumstances than its .Sy XTI counterpart is .Er TBUFOVFLW . It can be returned even when the .Sy maxlen field of the corresponding buffer has been set to zero. .Sh MT-LEVEL Safe .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr t_accept 3NSL , .Xr t_alloc 3NSL , .Xr t_close 3NSL , .Xr t_connect 3NSL , .Xr t_unbind 3NSL , .Xr sockaddr 3SOCKET , .Xr attributes 7 .Sh WARNINGS The requirement that the value of .Sy qlen never be negotiated from a requested value greater than zero to zero implies that transport providers, rather than the XTI implementation itself, accept this restriction. .Pp An implementation need not allow an application explicitly to bind more than one communications endpoint to a single protocol address, while permitting more than one connection to be accepted to the same protocol address. That means that although an attempt to bind a communications endpoint to some address with .Sy qlen=0 might be rejected with .Er TADDRBUSY , the user may nevertheless use this (unbound) endpoint as a responding endpoint in a call to .Xr t_accept 3NSL . To become independent of such implementation differences, the user should supply unbound responding endpoints to .Xr t_accept 3NSL . .Pp The local address bound to an endpoint may change as result of a .Xr t_accept 3NSL or .Xr t_connect 3NSL call. Such changes are not necessarily reversed when the connection is released.