March 8, 2006
Coverage:
[USP] Chapter 7
William Kimball Presents Code from His Telnet Program
- excellent illustration of the uniformity in UNIX systems programming
- reads and writes from sockets are the same as from file descriptors,
pipes, and so on
- in Win32, sockets are not really file descriptors
- also nice illustration of the use of select
- thanks William for an excellent presentation!
References
[USP] K. A. Robbins and S. Robbins. UNIX Systems Programming: Concurrency,
Communication, and Threads. Prentice Hall, 2003
