Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!necntc!ames!mike
From: mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Mike Smithwick)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: What is 'sockets' ???
Message-ID: <13800@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: 24 Aug 88 15:49:23 GMT
References: <916@altger.UUCP> <913@buengc.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov.UUCP (Mike Smithwick)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
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In article <913@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>In article <916@altger.UUCP> amigaeb@altger.UUCP (Ronny Hansen) writes:
>>I am trying to learn about socket's, but I cant find anything
>>to learn from. No books. No magazines. No nothing.
>
>Look for "A 4.2BSD Interprocess Communication Primer" by S.J. Leffler,
>R.S. Fabry, and Bill Joy.  I was looking for a long time for stuff
>on sockets until I found this 23-pager buried in the "supplemental
>documentation" volumes of my local Ultrix-32 document set.
>

You may want to track down a copy of the Networking primer supplied with
the new Sun OS 4.0 manual set. It is surprisingly clear. Even after working
with sockets for over a year, they were still alot like black-boxes to
me until I read that. Also, take a look at Maurice Bach's book, "The
Design of the Unix Operating System". Even though he focusses on Sys V, he
covers important issues in BSD including Sockets.


-- 
			   *** mike (starship janitor) smithwick ***
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, or all of the people
 some of the time, but you can't fool Mom".
[disclaimer : nope, I don't work for NASA, I take full blame for my ideas]