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Preface
This guide describes HP's BSD Sockets. BSD Sockets is a set of
programming development tools for interprocess communication. HP's
implementation of BSD Sockets is a full set of sockets from the
networking services originally developed by the University of California
at Berkeley (UCB).
The BSD Sockets Interface Programmer's Guide is the primary reference
for programmers who write or maintain BSD Sockets applications on HP
9000 computers. This guide also provides information about BSD Sockets
features for node managers who design HP 9000 networks.
This guide is written for intermediate to advanced programmers and
assumes that:
• Your HP 9000 networking is installed and running on your local host.
• You have all the login names you may be associated with (these may
be obtained from your node manager).
• You have a list of other hosts or nodes your HP 9000 product can
communicate with (this list may also be obtained from your node
manager).
This guide is organized as follows:
Chapter 1 BSD Sockets Concepts provides an overview of the
Client-Server Model.
Chapter 2 Using Internet Stream Sockets describes the steps
involved in creating an internet stream socket using
the AF_INET address family.
Chapter 3 Advanced Topics for Stream Sockets explains
socket options, synchronous I/O multiplexing with
select, sending and receiving data asynchronously,
nonblocking I/O, using shutdown, using read and
write to make stream sockets transparent, and
sending and receiving out-of- band data.
Chapter 4 Using Internet Datagram Sockets describes the
steps involved in creating an internet datagram socket
connection.
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