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Linux Application Development, Second Edition
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Linux Application Development, Second Edition

by Michael K. Johnson, Erik W. Troan
November 2004
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
736 pages
14h 4m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 17. Networking with Sockets

As the computer world becomes more networked, network-aware applications are increasingly important. Linux provides the Berkeley socket API, which has become the standard networking API. We discuss the basics of using Berkeley sockets for both TCP/IP networking and simple interprocess communication (IPC) through Unix-domain sockets.

This chapter is not intended to be a complete guide to network programming. Network programming is a complicated topic, and we recommend dedicated network programming books for programmers who intend to do serious work with sockets [Stevens, 2004]. This chapter should be sufficient to allow you to write simple networked applications, however.

Protocol Support

The Berkeley socket API ...

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