Re: [Dev-C++] Socket Programming - Newbie - sockaddr 16 bytes?

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> Obi wrote:
> 
>>         m_listenSocket = socket( AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0 );
> 
> 
> This is not right. Never call socket() with an AF_ argument; it should 
> be PF_ (PF_INET in this case). AF_INET just "works" here by coincidence, 
> because most of the BSD-sockets implementations use the same value for 
> them. This is just as correct as using "socket(2, 1, 0);".
> 

This is not exactly true. The BSD standard says that the AF_ value will 
be the same as PF_ value (this could be found on linux man pages). But 
you are right, the value should be PF_INET because it describes the 
protocol family not the address family.

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Krzysztof Kapuscik