UN.H(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual UN.H(7)

sys/un.h — definitions for UNIX domain sockets

#include <sys/un.h>

The <sys/un.h> header shall define the sockaddr_un structure that includes at least the following members:

sa_family_t  sun_family  Address family.
char         sun_path[]  Socket pathname.

The sockaddr_un structure is used to store addresses for UNIX domain sockets. Values of this type shall be cast by applications to struct sockaddr for use with socket functions.

The type shall be defined as described in <sys/socket.h>.

The size of sun_path has intentionally been left undefined. This is because different implementations use different sizes. For example, 4.3 BSD uses a size of 108, and 4.4 BSD uses a size of 104. Since most implementations originate from BSD versions, the size is typically in the range 92 to 108.

Applications should not assume a particular length for sun_path or assume that it can hold {_POSIX_PATH_MAX} characters (255).

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<sys/socket.h>, the System Interfaces volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (“POSIX.1”), bind(3), socket(3), socketpair(3)

First released in Issue 6. Derived from the XNS, Issue 5.2 specification.

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January 1, 2004 posix.fail