how to name a socket by bind

[jamesbon]

I read the man page of bind but could not understand much.
Here is a small program I posted in one of my previous posts.


#include<sys/types.h>
#include<sys/socket.h>
#include<stdio.h>
#include <sys/un.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
int main()
{
int server_sockfd, client_sockfd;
int server_len, client_len;
struct sockaddr_un server_address;
struct sockaddr_un client_address;
unlink("bond_socket");
server_sockfd = socket(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
server_address.sun_family = AF_UNIX;
strcpy(server_address.sun_path, "bond_socket");
server_len = sizeof(server_address);
bind(server_sockfd, (struct sockaddr *)&server_address, server_len);
listen(server_sockfd, 5);
while (1) {
char ch;
printf("server waiting\n");
client_len = sizeof(client_address);
client_sockfd = accept(server_sockfd,
(struct sockaddr *)&client_address,
&client_len);
read(client_sockfd, &ch, 1);
ch++;
write(client_sockfd, &ch, 1);
close(client_sockfd);
}
}

In the above code
the system call bind is used as


bind(server_sockfd, (struct sockaddr *)&server_address, server_len);

in the arguments of bind I do not see any argument which is the name of socket.
So what is the meaning of naming the socket by bind or I understood some thing wrong?

[Some Penguin]

strcpy(server_address.sun_path, "bond_socket");
bind(server_sockfd, (struct sockaddr *)&server_address, server_len);

[dwhitney67]

Ok, we know you can write, but can you read? You posted two threads the other day -- did you bother to read the replies or even pay attention to Beej's examples, specifically where the socket (file) name was string-copied to the sockaddr_un field of sun_path?

Here's another example, in C:


int bindSocketName(int sd, const char* socketName)
{
struct sockaddr_un sun;

memset(&sun, 0, sizeof(sun));

addr.sun_family = AF_UNIX;

strncpy(sun.sun_path, socketName, sizeof(sun.sun_path));

return bind(sd, (sockaddr*) &sun, SUN_LEN(&sun));
}

[jamesbon]

Ok, we know you can write, but can you read? You posted two threads the other day -- did you bother to read the replies or even pay attention to Beej's examples, specifically where the socket (file) name was string-copied to the sockaddr_un field of sun_path?



I read both the threads
this question is not related to any of those threads hence I opened a new one.
Why is strcpy function used.
Why can't we do
server_address.sun_path="server_socket"

[gmargo]

Look at the definition of sun_path in /usr/include/sys/un.h - sun_path is an array, not a pointer.

[jamesbon]

Ok since the socket is given a name as you people explained above.
Is it possible to see a socket with the given socket name which I assigned as above
when I am running a server program.
Can netstat or some other command show me the socket with this name.

[dwhitney67]

I'm not sure if netstat can be used to monitor the existence of a named socket. However, you could use lsof.