GETPEERNAME(2) BSD System Calls Manual GETPEERNAME(2)NAMEgetpeername — get name of connected peer
SYNOPSIS
int
getpeername(int s, struct sockaddr *name, int *namelen);
DESCRIPTIONGetpeername() 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 per‐
form the operation.
[EFAULT] The name parameter points to memory not in a valid part of
the process address space.
SEE ALSOaccept(2), bind(2), socket(2), getsockname(2)HISTORY
The getpeername function call appeared in 4.2BSD.
4.2 Berkeley Distribution June 4, 1993 4.2 Berkeley Distribution