Question

When I try to bind my socket I need to specify the address family in the addrinfo/sockaddr-structure I pass in to the call to bind(), or one will get an winsock error 10047 (Address family not supported by protocol family.)

What if I created a socket elswhere not knowing its address family…
How could I get the address family for that socket, so i can bind it?

getsockname only works for bound sockets :/…

I don´t want to force the caller of my function to pass the address family to my functions, especially if she/he/it uses AF_UNSPEC/PF_UNSPEC when creating her/his socket

(e.g. SOCKET sock = socket(AF_UNSPEC, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP); )

Answer 1

Since I am using Winsock I did search the MSDN for a short while and found WSADuplicateSocket.

WSAPROTOCOL_INFO proto;
WSADuplicateSocket(Socket, GetCurrentProcessId(), &proto);
SocketAF = proto.iAddressFamily;

Works fine for windows machines…