Programmer's Reference

SCI classes

The classes depicted in the figure are described in the following sections. Their hierarchy is as follows:

Object                    Object is extended.
       SciHostEnt	           Represents the hostent structure returned by the platform.
       SciProtoEnt           Represents the protoent structure returned by the platform.  
       SciServEnt            Represents the servent structure returned by the platform.
       SciSocketAddress      Represents the sockaddr structure which includes address,family and port  
       SciLocalSocketAddress Represents the sockaddr_un structure which includes path and family.
                             Available only on UNIX platforms.
       SciAbstractSocket     Represents a socket and provides most of the services to create, manage
                             and use the socket.
           SciSocket         Represents a socket and provides service to create, manage and use the socket
           SciLocalSocket    Represents a local ipc socket and provides the services specific to 
                             communication between processes.  Available only on UNIX platforms.
       SciSocketManager      Singleton object to provide protocol for Database calls and the select call.
       SciResult             Contains collections of sockets as answered by the select call.
       EsError
           SciError       Used to handle error information returned from the platform.     	


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