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Manual page for GETPEERNAME(2)

getpeername - get name of connected peer

SYNOPSIS




getpeername(s, name, namelen)
int s;
struct sockaddr *name;
int *namelen;

DESCRIPTION

Getpeername
returns the name of the peer connected to
socket
s. 
The
namelen
parameter should be initialized to indicate
the amount of space pointed to by
name. 
On return it contains the actual size of the name
returned (in bytes). 
The name is truncated if the buffer provided is too small. 

DIAGNOSTICS

A 0 is returned if the call succeeds, -1 if it fails. 

ERRORS

The call succeeds unless:



[EBADF]


The argument s is not a valid descriptor. 

[ENOTSOCK]


The argument s is a file, not a socket. 

[ENOTCONN]


The socket is not connected. 

[ENOBUFS]


Insufficient resources were available in the system
to perform the operation. 

[EFAULT]


The 
name
parameter points to memory not in a valid part of the
process address space. 



SEE ALSO

accept(2), bind(2), socket(2), getsockname(2)



	
	

	

	

	


	

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