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#### 16.5.3 Example of Local-Namespace Sockets

Here is an example showing how to create and name a socket in the local namespace.

         #include <stddef.h>
         #include <stdio.h>
         #include <errno.h>
         #include <stdlib.h>
         #include <string.h>
         #include <sys/socket.h>
         #include <sys/un.h>

         int
         make_named_socket (const char *filename)
         {
           struct sockaddr_un name;
           int sock;
           size_t size;

           /* Create the socket. */
           sock = socket (PF_LOCAL, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
           if (sock < 0)
             {
               perror ("socket");
               exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
             }

           /* Bind a name to the socket. */
           name.sun_family = AF_LOCAL;
           strncpy (name.sun_path, filename, sizeof (name.sun_path));
           name.sun_path[sizeof (name.sun_path) - 1] = '\0';

           /* The size of the address is
              the offset of the start of the filename,
              plus its length (not including the terminating null byte).
              Alternatively you can just do:
              size = SUN_LEN (&name);
          */
           size = (offsetof (struct sockaddr_un, sun_path)
                   + strlen (name.sun_path));

           if (bind (sock, (struct sockaddr *) &name, size) < 0)
             {
               perror ("bind");
               exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
             }

           return sock;
         }