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by **Dave Goodwi** » Fri, 14 Jul 2000 04:00:00

Hi

I know that when bind()ing I can pass a sockaddr struct with the sin_port
field set to 0, so that the OS can choose a suitable free port for me. How
I can I then find out what port was chosen?

cheers

dave

by **Russ Allber** » Sun, 16 Jul 2000 04:00:00

> I know that when bind()ing I can pass a sockaddr struct with the
> sin_port field set to 0, so that the OS can choose a suitable free port
> for me. How I can I then find out what port was chosen?

Call getsockname on the open file descriptor.

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by **mike burrel** » Mon, 17 Jul 2000 04:00:00

> I know that when bind()ing I can pass a sockaddr struct with the sin_port
> field set to 0, so that the OS can choose a suitable free port for me. How
> I can I then find out what port was chosen?

try getsockname().

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