June 2002
Beginner
759 pages
80h 42m
English
socket
socket socket, domain, type, protocol
Opens a socket of the specified kind and attaches it
to filehandle socket.
domain,
type, and
protocol are specified the same as for
socket(2). Before using this
function, your program should contain the line:
use Socket;
This setting gives you the proper constants. The function returns true if successful.