From: Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: IPC on Windows
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 22:31:09 +0100
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Hello.

Damian Yerrick wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 14:33:08 +0200 (CEST), Dieter Demerre
> <ext DOT dieter DOT demerre AT siemens DOT be> wrote:
> 
> >bind()
> >gethostbyname()
> >socket()
> >select()
> 
> These functions are available in Winsock, a port of BSD sockets to
> Windows.

Winsock isn't a port of BSD sockets. It's a new API that is compatible in
most ways with the BSD sockets API. There are some subtle and
not-so-subtle differences between BSD sockets and Winsock - see the
Winsock Programmers FAQ:

    http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent/programming/winsock/

In particular Windows and Unix do asynchronous I/O on sockets in a
completely different way.

Bye,

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Richard Dawe
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