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authorR David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>2013-07-25 17:24:40 (GMT)
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Sockets
=======
-Sockets are used nearly everywhere, but are one of the most severely
-misunderstood technologies around. This is a 10,000 foot overview of sockets.
-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 (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