Berkeley sockets

The Berkeley sockets application programming interface is a library[?] for developing applications in the C programming language that access a computer network.

Table of contents 1 The client side 1.1 socket() 1.2 gethostbyname() and gethostbyaddr() 1.3 connect() 2 The server side 2.1 socket() 2.2 bind() 2.3 listen() 2.4 accept()

The client side

socket()

gethostbyname() and gethostbyaddr()

connect()

The server side

socket()

bind()

listen()

accept()

accept() is used to to satisfy a connection request from a remote host. A specified socket on the local host (which must be capable of accepting the connection) is connected to the requesting socket on the remote host. The remote socket's socket address is returned.

See also:

• Networking

• Unix Manual Pages: (http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?Unix+manual+pages) accept(2) (http://www.medsch.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/pdm/man.pl?command=accept(2)) connect(2) (http://www.medsch.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/pdm/man.pl?command=connect(2))

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