Is there a definitive source of information on BSD sockets? e.g. is
there an RFC?
Many thanks,
Bruce
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Chaps,
Where is the specification of BSD sockets definitively expressed?
What standards body is responsible for the specification?
I read that BSD Sockets are a de facto standard (e.g. in RFC 2553), so
the answers may be nowhere and nobody respectively ... but I'm hoping
there is a body somewher
The BSD sockets API has become part of the IEEE Posix standards. The specific
part is IEEE Std 1003.1g, "Protocol Independent Interfaces." See
http://www.pasc.org/.
All this info from page 25 of W Richard Steven's "Unix Network Programming",
which is IMHO "the definitive source of information
On Tue May 23, 2006 at 13:50:45 +1000, Bruce Badger wrote:
>Chaps,
>
>Where is the specification of BSD sockets definitively expressed?
>
>What standards body is responsible for the specification?
>
>I read that BSD Sockets are a de facto standard (e.g. in RFC 2553), so
>the answers may be nowhere
Bruce Badger wrote:
Where is the specification of BSD sockets definitively expressed?
What standards body is responsible for the specification?
Try:
http://www.unix.org/single_unix_specification/
For networking click the "Topic" link in the left frame then
"Networking" link that appears
Bruce Badger wrote:
Chaps,
Where is the specification of BSD sockets definitively expressed?
There is a series of books entitled "Internetworking with TCP/IP",
1988-1993, by Comer
and Stevens.
In Volume III, Chapter 5 is entirely devoted to Berkeley Sockets which is
now known as BSD Soc
Bruce Badger wrote:
> Where is the specification of BSD sockets definitively expressed?
BSD sockets I'm not. On the other hand, the socket API is defined within the
POSIX 1003.1 specification, which Linux implements.
> What standards body is responsible for the specification?
In the case of POS
Terry Dawson wrote:
> BSD sockets I'm not. On the other hand, the socket API is defined within the
> POSIX 1003.1 specification, which Linux implements.
For the confused, what I meant to say was "BSD Sockets I'm not sure about."
To be BSD Socket, or not to be .. that is the question!
Terry
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On 23 May 2006, Bruce Badger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Chaps,
>
> Where is the specification of BSD sockets definitively expressed?
>
> What standards body is responsible for the specification?
>
> I read that BSD Sockets are a de facto standard (e.g. in RFC 2553), so
> the answers may be now
