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36 .Nd return the address length of an address family
44 .Fn sctp_getaddrlen "sa_family_t family"
48 function returns the size of a specific address family.
50 is provided for application binary compatibility since it
51 provides the application with the size the operating system
52 thinks the specific address family is.
53 Note that the function
54 will actually create an SCTP socket and then gather the
58 If for some reason a SCTP socket cannot
61 call fails, an error will be returned
64 set as specified in the
70 The call returns the number of bytes that the operating
71 system expects for the specific address family or -1.
75 function can return the following errors:
78 The address family specified does NOT exist.