getpeername

The Windows Sockets getpeername function gets the address of the peer to which a socket is connected.

int getpeername (

SOCKET s,
struct sockaddr FAR* name,
int FAR* namelen
);

Parameters

s

[in] A descriptor identifying a connected socket.

name

[out] The structure which is to receive the name of the peer.

namelen

[out] A pointer to the size of the name structure.

Remarks

getpeername retrieves the name of the peer connected to the socket s and stores it in the struct sockaddr identified by name. It can be used only on a connected socket. For datagram sockets, only the name of a peer specified in a previous connect call will be returnedany name specified by a previous sendto call will not be returned by getpeername.

On return, the namelen argument contains the actual size of the name returned in bytes.

Return Values

If no error occurs, getpeername returns zero. Otherwise, a value of SOCKET_ERROR is returned, and a specific error code can be retrieved by calling WSAGetLastError.

Error Codes

WSANOTINITIALISED	A successful WSAStartup must occur before using this function.
WSAENETDOWN	The network subsystem has failed.
WSAEFAULT	The name or the namelen argument is not a valid part of the user address space, or the namelen argument is too small.
WSAEINPROGRESS	A blocking Windows Sockets 1.1 call is in progress, or the service provider is still processing a callback function.
WSAENOTCONN	The socket is not connected.
WSAENOTSOCK	The descriptor is not a socket.

See Also

bind, getsockname, socket

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