sockets

sahana

sahana

@sahana-S4nL10 Oct 26, 2024

hi everyone.i need a small help in C.
i want to know if there can be a socket which is a blocking one.just the syntax and header files necessary.something like the socket has to wait untill it gets a packet

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  • elric

    elric

    @elric-7vzoqS Jun 15, 2008

    i guess you are asking the syntax to functions to make a basic server, to do this you need to use listen() first and then accept()
    their prototypes are
    #include <sys/socket.h>
    int listen(int sockfd, int backlog);
    int accept(int sockfd, void *addr, int *addrlen);

    the sequence of system calls you will do is
    socket();
    bind();
    listen();
    accept();

    i hope you do know how to use socket() and bind() if not google it up or refer a good networking programming book cause you will have to take care of specifing addresses in host-byte order or network-byte order. There is a good guide to network programming on the net too, <a href="https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Beej's Guide to Network Programming</a> , is short and concise. check it out. Also the above details is for gcc.

  • dropcards

    dropcards

    @dropcards-uFKqdP Jun 16, 2008

    usually the socket is blocking unless you set it otherwise with ioctl