libdill: Structured Concurrency for C

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NAME

ipaddr_family - returns family of the IP address

SYNOPSIS

#include <libdill.h>

int ipaddr_family(
    const struct ipaddr* addr);

DESCRIPTION

Returns family of the address, i.e. either AF_INET for IPv4 addresses or AF_INET6 for IPv6 addresses.

addr: IP address object.

This function is not available if libdill is compiled with --disable-sockets option.

RETURN VALUE

IP family.

ERRORS

None.

EXAMPLE

ipaddr addr;
ipaddr_remote(&addr, "www.example.org", 80, 0, -1);
int s = socket(ipaddr_family(addr), SOCK_STREAM, 0);
connect(s, ipaddr_sockaddr(&addr), ipaddr_len(&addr));

SEE ALSO

ipaddr_equal(3) ipaddr_len(3) ipaddr_local(3) ipaddr_port(3) ipaddr_remote(3) ipaddr_remotes(3) ipaddr_setport(3) ipaddr_sockaddr(3) ipaddr_str(3)