.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991 The Regents of the University of California. .\" All rights reserved. .\" .\" SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-4-Clause-UC .\" .\" @(#)getsockname.2 6.4 (Berkeley) 3/10/91 .\" .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 16:30:29 1993 by Rik Faith .\" Modified Tue Oct 22 00:22:35 EDT 1996 by Eric S. Raymond .\" Modified Sun Mar 28 21:26:46 1999 by Andries Brouwer .\" .TH getsockname 2 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7" .SH NAME getsockname \- get socket name .SH LIBRARY Standard C library .RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B #include .P .BI "int getsockname(int " sockfd ", struct sockaddr *restrict " addr , .BI " socklen_t *restrict " addrlen ); .fi .SH DESCRIPTION .BR getsockname () returns the current address to which the socket .I sockfd is bound, in the buffer pointed to by .IR addr . The .I addrlen argument should be initialized to indicate the amount of space (in bytes) pointed to by .IR addr . On return it contains the actual size of the socket address. .P The returned address is truncated if the buffer provided is too small; in this case, .I addrlen will return a value greater than was supplied to the call. .SH RETURN VALUE On success, zero is returned. On error, \-1 is returned, and .I errno is set to indicate the error. .SH ERRORS .TP .B EBADF The argument .I sockfd is not a valid file descriptor. .TP .B EFAULT The .I addr argument points to memory not in a valid part of the process address space. .TP .B EINVAL .I addrlen is invalid (e.g., is negative). .TP .B ENOBUFS Insufficient resources were available in the system to perform the operation. .TP .B ENOTSOCK The file descriptor .I sockfd does not refer to a socket. .SH STANDARDS POSIX.1-2008. .SH HISTORY POSIX.1-2001, SVr4, 4.4BSD (first appeared in 4.2BSD). .\" SVr4 documents additional ENOMEM .\" and ENOSR error codes. .SH SEE ALSO .BR bind (2), .BR socket (2), .BR getifaddrs (3), .BR ip (7), .BR socket (7), .BR unix (7)