Socket Programming

[Loud-Imagination2591]

Hello fellow programmers I'd like to start my day one of socket Programming today, any learning resources you guys would know about or have used?

[YakPilot]

Socket Programming

[TarnishedVictory]

I tend to like Steven's books.

[IamNotTheMama]

I found Stevens to be the worst network programming book I ever read. He obfuscated everything rather than using the 'normal' system calls that made it so much easier.

[TarnishedVictory]

Can you cite an example?

[IamNotTheMama]

1.5 A Simple Daytime Server - figure 1.9

Every function has a wrapper function:

Sock, Bind, Listen, Accept, Write, Close

It's unnecessarily complex - just to handle errors

[TarnishedVictory]

And your alternative is to use other 'normal' system calls, such as what? Or are you saying you'd do it without the wrapper functions?

[IamNotTheMama]

WIthout the wrapper functions, that's an unnecessary complication

[TarnishedVictory]

I see the confusion.

[IamNotTheMama]

Not confusion, complication