Port management



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Port management

This section contains a single command for initialising the bind code which unfortunately has to be in the kernel.

Setting the host address

The bind code must set the users msnl address for subsequent sockaddr(2) calls. This sets the address that will be given. It is used for no other purpose. It may be changed at any time and does not retrospectively modify the sockets already in existance. The command is MMDOWN_HOSTSET and the fields are:

The possible errors generated by the kernel port code are:



Richard Black