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4.\"
5.Dd November 22, 1987
6.Dt BINDRESVPORT 3
7.Os
8.Sh NAME
9.Nm bindresvport ,
10.Nm bindresvport_sa
11.Nd bind a socket to a privileged IP port
12.Sh LIBRARY
13.Lb libc
14.Sh SYNOPSIS
15.In sys/types.h
16.In rpc/rpc.h
17.Ft int
18.Fn bindresvport "int sd" "struct sockaddr_in *sin"
19.Ft int
20.Fn bindresvport_sa "int sd" "struct sockaddr *sa"
21.Sh DESCRIPTION
22The
23.Fn bindresvport
24and
25.Fn bindresvport_sa
26functions
27are used to bind a socket descriptor to a privileged
28.Tn IP
29port, that is, a
30port number in the range 0-1023.
31.Pp
32If
33.Fa sin
34is a pointer to a
35.Ft "struct sockaddr_in"
36then the appropriate fields in the structure should be defined.
37Note that
38.Fa sin->sin_family
39must be initialized to the address family of the socket, passed by
40.Fa sd .
41If
42.Fa sin->sin_port
43is
44.Sq 0
45then an anonymous port (in the range 600-1023) will be
46chosen, and if
47.Xr bind 2
48is successful, the
49.Fa sin->sin_port
50will be updated to contain the allocated port.
51.Pp
52If
53.Fa sin
54is the
55.Dv NULL
56pointer,
57an anonymous port will be allocated (as above).
58However, there is no way for
59.Fn bindresvport
60to return the allocated port in this case.
61.Pp
62Only root can bind to a privileged port; this call will fail for any
63other users.
64.Pp
65Function prototype of
66.Fn bindresvport
67is biased to
68.Dv AF_INET
69socket.
70The
71.Fn bindresvport_sa
72function
73acts exactly the same, with more neutral function prototype.
74Note that both functions behave exactly the same, and
75both support
76.Dv AF_INET6
77sockets as well as
78.Dv AF_INET
79sockets.
80.Sh RETURN VALUES
81.Rv -std bindresvport
82.Sh ERRORS
83.Bl -tag -width Er
84.It Bq Er EPFNOSUPPORT
85If second argument was supplied,
86and address family did not match between arguments.
87.El
88.Pp
89The
90.Fn bindresvport
91function
92may also fail and set
93.Va errno
94for any of the errors specified for the calls
95.Xr bind 2 ,
96.Xr getsockopt 2 ,
97or
98.Xr setsockopt 2 .
99.Sh SEE ALSO
100.Xr bind 2 ,
101.Xr getsockopt 2 ,
102.Xr setsockopt 2 ,
103.Xr ip 4
104