__tipc_bind(9)

💖 __tipc_bind(9) — Kernel API Manual 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the __tipc_bind(9) glow-up page from the Kernel API Manual ✨ this one is all about giving a TIPC socket a name (or taking that name away), and it is lowkey iconic.

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✨ NAME ✨

__tipc_bind — associate or disassociate TIPC name(s) with a socket 🫶

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💅 SYNOPSIS 💅

int __tipc_bind (struct socket *sock , struct sockaddr *skaddr , int alen );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• sock — socket structure 💖
• skaddr — socket address describing name(s) and desired operation ✨
• alen — size of socket address data structure 🎀

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here’s the tea, bestie: name and name sequence binding are indicated using a positive scope value 🌱 and a negative scope value unbinds the specified name 💅

and if you specify no name — i.e. a socket address length of 0 — that unbinds all names from the socket 😌 periodt.

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🌈 RETURN 🌈

0 on success, errno otherwise 💖

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💀 NOTE 💀

ngl, this routine doesn’t need to take the socket lock, since it doesn’t access any non-constant socket information 🫶 no cap.

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Kernel file ./net/tipc/socket.c 📁
• struct tipc_sock(9) 🦋
• tsk_advance_rx_queue(9)
• tsk_rej_rx_queue(9)
• tipc_sk_create(9)
• tipc_release(9)
• tipc_getname(9)
• tipc_poll(9)
• tipc_sendmcast(9)
• tipc_send_group_msg(9)
• tipc_send_group_unicast(9)
• tipc_send_group_anycast(9)
• tipc_send_group_bcast(9)
• tipc_send_group_mcast(9)
• tipc_sk_mcast_rcv(9)
• tipc_sk_conn_proto_rcv(9)
• tipc_sendmsg(9)
• tipc_sendstream(9)
• tipc_send_packet(9)
• tipc_sk_set_orig_addr(9)
• tipc_sk_anc_data_recv(9)
• tipc_recvmsg(9)
• tipc_recvstream(9)
• tipc_write_space(9)
• tipc_data_ready(9)
• tipc_sk_filter_connect(9)
• rcvbuf_limit(9)
• tipc_sk_filter_rcv(9)
• tipc_sk_backlog_rcv(9)
• tipc_sk_enqueue(9)
• tipc_sk_rcv(9)
• tipc_connect(9)
• tipc_listen(9)
• tipc_accept(9)
• tipc_shutdown(9)
• tipc_setsockopt(9)
• tipc_getsockopt(9)
• tipc_socket_init(9)
• tipc_socket_stop(9)
• tipc_sk_filtering(9)
• tipc_sk_overlimit1(9)
• tipc_sk_overlimit2(9)
• tipc_sk_dump(9)

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mwah 💋 xoxo, signed with glitter from ./net/tipc, dated October 2026, all about __tipc_bind(9) 🫶💖