Programming and posix - February 2001

February 10, 2001
Solution Symposium
Page 52
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programming
and posix
sockets
• InterProcess communciation via socket address:
• Internet (32-bit IPv4 address, port number)
• Unix (local file name)
• Functions
• socket() - create socket descriptor
• connect() - connect to a remote socket
• bind() - to use specific listening socket (i.e. port 80)
• listen() - establish queue for incoming TCP conns
• accept() - wait for a new TCP connection
• read()/recv(), write()/send() - data transmission
• close() - close a socket