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authorMartin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>2011-05-29 14:54:08 (GMT)
committerMartin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>2011-05-29 14:54:08 (GMT)
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Explain that INET is IPv4 and STREAM is TCP.
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@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ It's not really a tutorial - you'll still have work to do in getting things
working. It doesn't cover the fine points (and there are a lot of them), but I
hope it will give you enough background to begin using them decently.
-I'm only going to talk about INET sockets, but they account for at least 99% of
-the sockets in use. And I'll only talk about STREAM sockets - unless you really
+I'm only going to talk about INET (i.e. IPv4) sockets, but they account for at least 99% of
+the sockets in use. And I'll only talk about STREAM (i.e. TCP) sockets - unless you really
know what you're doing (in which case this HOWTO isn't for you!), you'll get
better behavior and performance from a STREAM socket than anything else. I will
try to clear up the mystery of what a socket is, as well as some hints on how to