From: George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Network programming
Date: 6 Feb 1998 16:54:17 GMT
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On Fri, 06 Feb 1998 14:29:22 +0100 in comp.os.msdos.djgpp Gruber
Gerhard <g DOT gruber AT sis DOT co DOT at> wrote:

: George Foot wrote:

: > Tests show that the Winsock is actually quite a fast way to
: > communicate.  It only supports AF_INET with [SOCK_STREAM and
: > IPPROTO_TCP] or [SOCK_DGRAM and IPPROTO_UDP] though.
: > 
: > If you're really interested in more details on this, let me know
: > privately and I can explain in more detail/accuracy and send examples.

: Wouldn't it be good to put this explanation into a FAQ or some thing
: like that? I think that there are more people interested in this
: (including me :) ).

It probably is in an FAQ somewhere; have you looked around for sockets
tutorials?  Being able to communicate between processes is quite a
common thing; once you understand how sockets are organised it's
fairly clear that you can loop back to the same machine.  Indeed, if
you do a getsockname on an unconnected socket you invariably get the
localhost address of that socket -- 127.0.0.1:some_port.

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