[plug] Re: sockets

[Tim Bowden]

On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 13:09, Russell Steicke wrote:

> How about this:
> 
> Sockets are a generic interface to a network.  A socket exists in an
> "address family" (or protocol family).  This socket is in the AF_INET
> (PF_INET) address family, for internet protocol version 4.  After a
> server socket is created, it gets bound to an address, with bind(2).
> (Sockets used by clients go through a different life cycle.)  In
> AF_INET, the socket address includes a port number (generally the same
> as a tcp or udp port number from /etc/services) and an IP address.
> 
> In this case, the bind() has failed either because some other process is
> listening to that socket address, or the port number is below 1024 and
> the calling process is not run by root.
> 
> SEE ALSO
> 
>   socket(2), bind(2), socket(7), ip(7).
> 
> More than 5 lines, sorry.
> 
Forgiven.  I will have to take your word on all that ;-)

Thanks,
Tim Bowden