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40 .Nd return the address length of an address family
48 .Fn sctp_getaddrlen "sa_family_t family"
52 function returns the size of a specific address family.
54 is provided for application binary compatibility since it
55 provides the application with the size the operating system
56 thinks the specific address family is.
57 Note that the function
58 will actually create an SCTP socket and then gather the
62 If for some reason a SCTP socket cannot
65 call fails, an error will be returned
68 set as specified in the
74 The call returns the number of bytes that the operating
75 system expects for the specific address family or -1.
79 function can return the following errors:
82 The address family specified does NOT exist.