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- <h3 class="section">16.3 Socket Addresses</h3>
- <p><a name="index-address-of-socket-1651"></a><a name="index-name-of-socket-1652"></a><a name="index-binding-a-socket-address-1653"></a><a name="index-socket-address-_0028name_0029-binding-1654"></a>The name of a socket is normally called an <dfn>address</dfn>. The
- functions and symbols for dealing with socket addresses were named
- inconsistently, sometimes using the term “name” and sometimes using
- “address”. You can regard these terms as synonymous where sockets
- are concerned.
- <p>A socket newly created with the <code>socket</code> function has no
- address. Other processes can find it for communication only if you
- give it an address. We call this <dfn>binding</dfn> the address to the
- socket, and the way to do it is with the <code>bind</code> function.
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- address for other sockets, but this is usually pointless; the first time
- you send data from a socket, or use it to initiate a connection, the
- system assigns an address automatically if you have not specified one.
- <p>Occasionally a client needs to specify an address because the server
- discriminates based on address; for example, the rsh and rlogin
- protocols look at the client's socket address and only bypass password
- checking if it is less than <code>IPPORT_RESERVED</code> (see <a href="Ports.html#Ports">Ports</a>).
- <p>The details of socket addresses vary depending on what namespace you are
- using. See <a href="Local-Namespace.html#Local-Namespace">Local Namespace</a>, or <a href="Internet-Namespace.html#Internet-Namespace">Internet Namespace</a>, for specific
- information.
- <p>Regardless of the namespace, you use the same functions <code>bind</code> and
- <code>getsockname</code> to set and examine a socket's address. These
- functions use a phony data type, <code>struct sockaddr *</code>, to accept the
- address. In practice, the address lives in a structure of some other
- data type appropriate to the address format you are using, but you cast
- its address to <code>struct sockaddr *</code> when you pass it to
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