Lectures notes for 2010 - KTH

Learning about Socket programming
For examples of using the socket API and networking programming see :
• Richard Stevens, UNIX Network Programming, Volume 1, Second
Edition: Networking APIs: Sockets and XTI, Prentice Hall, 1998, ISBN
0-13-490012-X
• source code ftp://ftp.kohala.com/pub/rstevens/unpv12e.tar.gz
• errata list: http://www.kohala.com/~rstevens/typos.unpv12e.txt
• Brian "Beej" Hall, “Beej’s Guide to Network Programming: Using
Internet Sockets”, 04/08/2004 07:22:02 PM
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~beej/guide/net/
Two addition socket functions for controlling various properties of sockets are:
• int getsockopt(int s, int level, int optname, void *optval, socklen_t *optlen);
• int setsockopt(int s, int level, int optname, const void *optval, socklen_t optlen);
For example, the options SO_SNDBUF and SO_RCVBUF - control the size of the
sending buffer and the receiver buffer.
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