Linux socket bind IPv6 only
Socket options
IPv6 support some protocol-specific socket options that can be set with setsockopt and read with getsockopt. The socket option level for IPv6 is IPPROTO_IPV6. A boolean integer flag is zero with it is false, otherwise true.
IPV6_V6ONLY
If this flag is set to true (nonzero), then the socket is restricted to sending and receiving IPv6 packets only. In this case, an IPv4 and an IPv6 application can bind to a single port at the same time.
If this flag is set to false (zero), then the socket can be used to send and receive packets to and from an IPv6 address or an IPv4-mapped IPv6 address.
The argument is a pointer to a boolean value in an integer.
The default value for this flag is defined by the contents of the file /proc/sys/net/ipv6/bindv6only. The default value for that file is 0 (false).
Example
int one = 1;
setsockopt (fd, IPPROTO_IPV6, IPV6_V6ONLY, &one, sizeof (one));