Linux cli command getpeername

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NAME 🖥️ getpeername 🖥️

get name of connected peer socket

LIBRARY

Standard C library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/socket.h>
int getpeername(int sockfd, struct sockaddr *restrict addr,
 socklen_t *restrict addrlen);

DESCRIPTION

getpeername() returns the address of the peer connected to the socket sockfd, in the buffer pointed to by addr. The addrlen argument should be initialized to indicate the amount of space pointed to by addr. On return it contains the actual size of the name returned (in bytes). The name is truncated if the buffer provided is too small.

The returned address is truncated if the buffer provided is too small; in this case, addrlen will return a value greater than was supplied to the call.

RETURN VALUE

On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS

EBADF
The argument sockfd is not a valid file descriptor.

EFAULT
The addr argument points to memory not in a valid part of the process address space.

EINVAL
addrlen is invalid (e.g., is negative).

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

ENOTCONN
The socket is not connected.

ENOTSOCK
The file descriptor sockfd does not refer to a socket.

STANDARDS

POSIX.1-2008.

HISTORY

POSIX.1-2001, SVr4, 4.4BSD (first appeared in 4.2BSD).

NOTES

For stream sockets, once a connect(2) has been performed, either socket can call getpeername() to obtain the address of the peer socket. On the other hand, datagram sockets are connectionless. Calling connect(2) on a datagram socket merely sets the peer address for outgoing datagrams sent with write(2) or recv(2). The caller of connect(2) can use getpeername() to obtain the peer address that it earlier set for the socket. However, the peer socket is unaware of this information, and calling getpeername() on the peer socket will return no useful information (unless a connect(2) call was also executed on the peer). Note also that the receiver of a datagram can obtain the address of the sender when using recvfrom(2).

SEE ALSO

accept(2), bind(2), getsockname(2), ip(7), socket(7), unix(7)

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