Subj : Re: POSIX SOCKETS THREADS
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Loic Domaigne
Date : Tue Jan 18 2005 06:27 am

Gidday!


> Can someone advice on a good tutorial of socket programming under UNIX
> Linux?

Undoubfully, Network UNIX Programming, Volume 1 from Stevens. (Purist 
shall prefer the 2nd edition; newest material can be found in the 3rd).


> What are standard POSIX commands: open, listen, connect, send,
> receive, and bind, broadcast???? I am not very familiar with the
> standard, please suggest.
> 
> 
> Does select ()/poll () belong to the same list?

All those calls have been standardized by the Single Unix Specification. 
See: http://www.unix.org/version3/


> I AM totally confused; please help me disambiguate my confusion.

What is the source of your confusion?


HTH,
Loic.

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