BSD Sockets Interface Programmer's Guide

Chapter 8 173

Programming Hints

Summary Tables for System and Library Calls

Summary Tables for System and Library

Calls

The following table contains a summary of the BSD Sockets system calls.

Table 8-1 BSD Sockets System Calls

System Call Description

socket Creates a socket, or communication endpoint for the

calling process.

bind Assigns a socket address to the socket speciﬁed by

the calling process.

listen Sets up a queue for incoming connection requests.

(Stream sockets only.)

connect For stream sockets, requests and creates a

connection between the remote socket (speciﬁed by

address) and the socket (speciﬁed by descriptor) of

the calling process. For datagram sockets,

permanently speciﬁes the remote peer socket.

accept Receives a connection between the socket of the

calling process and the socket speciﬁed in the

associated connect call. (Stream sockets only.)

send,

sendto,

sendmsg

Sends data from the speciﬁed socket.

recv,

recvfrom,

recvmsg

Receives data at the speciﬁed socket.

shutdown Disconnects the speciﬁed socket.