Description of SOCKETS(POSIX) functions

This section describes all user functions of the SOCKETS interface in alphabetic order.

Contents:

• accept() - accept a connection over a socket
• bind() - assign a name to a socket
• Byte order macros - convert byte order
• connect() - initiate a connection over a socket
• freeaddrinfo() - release memory for addrinfo structure
• freehostent() - release memory for hostent structure
• gai_strerror() - output text for the error code of getaddrinfo()
• getaddrinfo() - get information about host names, host addresses and services regardless of protocol
• gethostent(), gethostbyname(), gethostbyaddr(), sethostent(), endhostent() - get information about host names and addresses
• gethostname() - get the name of the current host
• getipnodebyaddr(), getipnodebyname() - get information about host names and addresses
• getnameinfo() - get name of the communications partner
• getnetent(), getnetbyname(), getnetbyaddr(), setnetent(), endnetent() - get information about net...
• getpeername() - get the name of the communications partner
• getprotoent(), getprotobynumber(), getprotobyname(), setprotoent(), endprotoent() - get information about protocols
• getservent(), getservbyport(), getservbyname(), setservent(), endservent() - get information about services
• getsockname() - get the name of a socket
• getsockopt(), setsockopt() - get and set socket options
• inet_addr(), inet_network(), inet_makeaddr(), inet_lnaof(), inet_netof(), inet_ntoa() - manipulate IPv4 Internet address
• inet_ntop(), inet_pton() - manipulate Internet addresses
• listen() - test a socket for pending connections
• recv(), recvfrom(), recvmsg() - receive a message from a socket
• send(), sendto(), sendmsg() - send a message from socket to socket
• shutdown() - close full duplex connection
• socket() - create socket
• socketpair() - create a pair of connected sockets