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<h4 class="subsection">16.6.7 Internet Socket Example</h4>

<p>Here is an example showing how to create and name a socket in the
Internet namespace.  The newly created socket exists on the machine that
the program is running on.  Rather than finding and using the machine's
Internet address, this example specifies <code>INADDR_ANY</code> as the host
address; the system replaces that with the machine's actual address.

<pre class="smallexample">     #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
     #include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
     #include &lt;sys/socket.h&gt;
     #include &lt;netinet/in.h&gt;
     
     int
     make_socket (uint16_t port)
     {
       int sock;
       struct sockaddr_in name;
     
       /* <span class="roman">Create the socket.</span> */
       sock = socket (PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
       if (sock &lt; 0)
         {
           perror ("socket");
           exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
         }
     
       /* <span class="roman">Give the socket a name.</span> */
       name.sin_family = AF_INET;
       name.sin_port = htons (port);
       name.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl (INADDR_ANY);
       if (bind (sock, (struct sockaddr *) &amp;name, sizeof (name)) &lt; 0)
         {
           perror ("bind");
           exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
         }
     
       return sock;
     }
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   <p>Here is another example, showing how you can fill in a <code>sockaddr_in</code>
structure, given a host name string and a port number:

<pre class="smallexample">     #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
     #include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
     #include &lt;sys/socket.h&gt;
     #include &lt;netinet/in.h&gt;
     #include &lt;netdb.h&gt;
     
     void
     init_sockaddr (struct sockaddr_in *name,
                    const char *hostname,
                    uint16_t port)
     {
       struct hostent *hostinfo;
     
       name-&gt;sin_family = AF_INET;
       name-&gt;sin_port = htons (port);
       hostinfo = gethostbyname (hostname);
       if (hostinfo == NULL)
         {
           fprintf (stderr, "Unknown host %s.\n", hostname);
           exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
         }
       name-&gt;sin_addr = *(struct in_addr *) hostinfo-&gt;h_addr;
     }
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