On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 10:26:30AM +0000, Mateus Interciso wrote: > Hello, I was reading the Unix Network Programing, and there it sayd that > Linux Socket's was remade from scratch, instead of using BSD sockets, > what's the main difference between both of them? Does anyone knows? Main difference is just that - re-implemented from scratch. That is, normal user codes see no differences at all, and those who play with socket options should know what they are doing and why and how. At socket API level there is only one obscure detail in one setsockopt() parameter set. (man setsockopt, man 7 tcp) When you use that book for application level programming, see always "man xyz" on the function your are about to use, if there is some obscure difference from BSD, although none that really matter do exist. If you try to diverge from normal socket application usage into more esoteric things of "what interfaces do I have in this system, what are their addresses, etc." then some differences may manifest or might not. > Thanks a lot. > Mateus /Matti Aarnio - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
