.\" $OpenBSD: bindresvport.3,v 1.25 2013/06/05 03:39:23 tedu Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2010, Oracle America, Inc. .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are .\" met: .\" .\" * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. .\" * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above .\" copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following .\" disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials .\" provided with the distribution. .\" * Neither the name of the "Oracle America, Inc." nor the names of its .\" contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived .\" from this software without specific prior written permission. .\" .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS .\" "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT .\" LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS .\" FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE .\" COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, .\" INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL .\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE .\" GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS .\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, .\" WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING .\" NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE .\" OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .Dd $Mdocdate: June 5 2013 $ .Dt BINDRESVPORT 3 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm bindresvport , .Nm bindresvport_sa .Nd bind a socket to a privileged IP port .Sh SYNOPSIS .In sys/types.h .In netinet/in.h .Ft int .Fn bindresvport "int sd" "struct sockaddr_in *sin" .Ft int .Fn bindresvport_sa "int sd" "struct sockaddr *sa" .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Fn bindresvport and .Fn bindresvport_sa functions are used to bind a socket descriptor to a privileged IP port, that is, a port number in the range 0-1023. The .Fn bindresvport function operates solely on .Dv AF_INET sockets, whereas the .Fn bindresvport_sa function is capable of binding both .Dv AF_INET and .Dv AF_INET6 sockets. .Pp Only the superuser may bind to a privileged port; these functions will fail for any other user. .Pp .Fa sd should be a socket descriptor that was returned by a call to .Xr socket 2 . .Pp If .Va sin is not the NULL pointer, .Va sin->sin_family must be initialized to the address family of the socket .Va sd . If the value of .Va sin->sin_port is non-zero, .Fn bindresvport will attempt to use the specified port. Otherwise, a free port in the range 600-1023 will be chosen and, if the .Xr bind 2 succeeds, .Va sin->sin_port will be updated with the port that was assigned. .Pp If .Va sin is the NULL pointer, a free port in the range 600-1023 will be chosen (as above), but in this case there is no way for .Fn bindresvport to communicate to the caller which port was assigned. .Sh RETURN VALUES .Fn bindresvport returns 0 if it is successful, otherwise \-1 is returned and .Va errno set to reflect the cause of the error. .Sh ERRORS The .Fn bindresvport function fails if: .Bl -tag -width Er .It Bq Er EBADF .Fa sd is not a valid descriptor. .It Bq Er ENOTSOCK .Fa sd is not a socket. .It Bq Er EADDRNOTAVAIL The specified address is not available from the local machine. .It Bq Er EADDRINUSE The specified address is already in use. .It Bq Er EINVAL The socket is already bound to an address. .It Bq Er EINVAL The family of the socket and that requested in .Va sa->sa_family are not equivalent. .It Bq Er EACCES The requested address is protected, and the current user has inadequate permission to access it. .It Bq Er EFAULT The .Fa name parameter is not in a valid part of the user address space. .It Bq Er ENOBUFS Insufficient resources were available in the system to perform the operation. .It Bq Er EPFNOSUPPORT The protocol family has not been configured into the system, no implementation for it exists, or address family did not match between arguments. .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr bind 2 , .Xr socket 2 , .Xr rresvport 3 , .Xr rresvport_af 3