• NAME
  
  getpeername - get name of connected peer socket
• SYNOPSIS
  
  #include <sys/socket.h>
  
  int getpeername(int sockfd , struct sockaddr * addr , socklen_t * 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 appropriately.
• ERRORS
  

  EBADF

  The argument sockfd is not a valid 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 argument sockfd is a file, not a socket.

• CONFORMING TO
  
  SVr4, 4.4BSD (the getpeername () function call first appeared in 4.2BSD), POSIX.1-2001.
• NOTES
  
  The third argument of getpeername () is in reality an int * (and this is what 4.x BSD and libc4 and libc5 have). Some POSIX confusion resulted in the present socklen_t , also used by glibc. See also accept(2) .
• SEE ALSO
  
  accept(2) , bind(2) , getsockname(2) , ip(7) , socket(7) , unix(7)
• COLOPHON
  
  This page is part of release 3.19 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

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