HP Rp7410 BSD Sockets Interface Programmer's Guide - Page 94

Using Internet Datagram Sockets Writing the Server and Client Processes Parameter Description of Contents INPUT Value s addr addrlen socket descriptor of local socket socket address length of socket address socket descriptor of socket to be bound pointer to address to be bound to s size of struct sockaddr_in_address Function result: 0 if bind is successful, -1 if failure occurs. Example: struct sockaddr_in myaddr; ... bind (s, &myaddr, sizeof(struct sockaddr_in)); When to Bind Socket Addresses The client and server process should bind socket addresses after the socket is created and before any other BSD Sockets system calls. Refer to the bind(2) man page for more information on bind. 94 Chapter 4