sockets

[Gerard A. Allan]

In article <4421 at infmx.UUCP> kevinf at infmx.UUCP (Kevin Franden) writes:
>
>Being incredibly naieve about sockets, I ask this blindly:
>
>Doesn't there exist a function to determin a preexisiting (I've 
>heard some call this a "wellknown") service's socket number?

sounds like you want, 
                    struct servent *getservbyname(name, proto)
                    char *name, *proto;

There seems to have been a lot of questions on sockets recently (I don't
want to discourage them since I learn a lot from the answers), there are a
couple of good sources of information that will answer most users questions

1)   ``An Introductory 4.3BSD Interprocess Communication
     Tutorial.'' (reprinted in UNIX Programmer's Supplementary
     Documents Volume 1, PS1:7)

This give a *very* clear introduction to sockets (University Libs should
have a copy)

Follow up by reading,

2)   ``An Advanced 4.3BSD Interprocess
     Communication Tutorial.'' (reprinted in UNIX Programmer's
     Supplementary Documents Volume 1, PS1:8)

Once you've read these you could probably answer most of the socket
related questions ask here recently.

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