explain_bind_or_die(3)

💖 NAME 💖

explain_bind_or_die — bind a name to a socket and report errors

okay so bestie, picture this: you wanna slap a name onto a socket, and you want it done loudly and correctly, with receipts. That's literally her whole thing. 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <libexplain/bind.h>
void explain_bind_or_die(int fildes, const struct sockaddr *sock_addr,
int sock_addr_size);

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So here's the tea ☕ — explain_bind_or_die is the function you call when you want to hit up the bind(2) system call, but you want it with ✨consequences✨.

If it goes off without a hitch? Slay, you're golden. But the moment it fails, this girl prints a whole explanation to stderr — and she doesn't write that explanation herself, no ma'am, she gets it from explain_bind(3) — and then she ends the entire process by calling exit(EXIT_FAILURE). Not a drill. Not a soft launch. Straight to the void. 💀

She's built to be used in a fashion similar to this lil example right here:

explain_bind_or_die(fildes, sock_addr, sock_addr_size);

• fildes — the fildes, exactly as to be passed to the bind(2) system call. No edits, no vibes-based reinterpretation, just hand her the real one. 🫶
• sock_addr — the sock_addr, exactly as to be passed to the bind(2) system call. Yes, the whole entire struct pointer. Give her what she asked for. 🌈
• sock_addr_size — the sock_addr_size, exactly as to be passed to the bind(2) system call. The size. The number. That one. 💅

⭐ Returns: ⭐

This function only returns on success. That's it. That's the whole return policy. 🛍️

On failure, she prints an explanation and exits. Periodt. No coming back, no second chances, the process is gone. 😭

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• bind(2) — bind a name to a socket
• explain_bind(3) — explain bind(2) errors
• exit(2) — terminate the calling process

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🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

libexplain version 1.4 Copyright (C) 2008 Peter Miller

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 💖 it's giving "library functions manual, section 3" energy, it's giving explain_bind_or_die(3) on the marquee, and honestly? she ate. go bind those sockets responsibly, ily, mwah 🧚✨