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The bind function associates a local address with a socket. It assigns a local socket address, specified by the argument myAddr to a socket identified by the descriptor socket that has no local socket address assigned.
Syntax
Parameters socket A descriptor identifying an unbound socket.
myAddr Points to a sockaddr structure containing the address to be bound to the socket.
addrLen Length of the sockaddr structure pointed by myAddr, in bytes.
Return value If no error occurs, bind returns 0 otherwise it returns -1. If an error occurs errno indicates the error. |