Programmer's Reference

Supported Socket and Database functions

This specification includes the following socket functions:

   accept
   bind
   close 
   connect
   getPeerName
   getSockName
   getSockOpt
   listen
   recv
   recvFrom
   select
   send
   sendTo
   setSockOpt
   shutDown
   socket

The following basic database functions are also provided:

	getHostByAddr
	getHostByName
	getHostName		
	getProtoByName		
	getProtoByNumber		
	getServByName		
	getServByPort

These functions answer instances of the classes that represent the structures returned by the interface, (i.e. hostent, servent and protoent structures) and that understand appropriate accessors to retrieve information from the structures.


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