BIND

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION

NAME

bind - binds an address to a socket

SYNOPSIS

bind SOCKET,NAME

DESCRIPTION

Binds a network address to a socket, just as the bind system call does. Returns TRUE if it succeeded, FALSE otherwise. NAME should be a packed address of the appropriate type for the socket. See the examples in the section on Sockets: Client/Server Communication in the perlipc manpage.