Bind

This operation binds the supplied reference ref to the supplied composite name name, taken relative to ctx. The binding is made in the target context--that named by all but the terminal atomic part of name. The operation binds the terminal atomic name to the supplied reference in the target context. The target context must already exist.

int fn_ctx_bind(
    FN_ctx_t *ctx,
    const FN_composite_name_t *name,
    const   FN_ref_t *ref,
    unsigned int exclusive,
    FN_status_t *status);

The value of exclusive determines what happens if the terminal atomic part of the name is already bound in the target context. If exclusive is nonzero and name is already bound, the operation fails. If exclusive is zero, the new binding replaces any existing binding.

The value of ref cannot be NULL. If you want to reserve a name using the fn_ctx_bind() operation, bind a reference containing no address. This reference can be naming service-specific or it can be the conventional NULL reference.