Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 04:31:59 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Lance Bland <lbland@vvi.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: send vs write, recv vs read on socket? Message-ID: <20020511013159.GA9063@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <CD79A00C-634C-11D6-9558-0030659A531A@vvi.com> References: <CD79A00C-634C-11D6-9558-0030659A531A@vvi.com>
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On 2002-05-09 09:00, Lance Bland wrote:
> hi fellow FreeBSDers-
>
> On FreeBSD, what is the main difference(s) between send vs write on
> a socket and recv vs read on a socket?
>
> Besides the added argument flag at the end, and if that flag is zero.
There are various functions to send data down a socket. All of them
are essentially wrappers to the sendmsg() syscall. They are explained
in detail in Richard W. Stevens' book "TCP/IP Illustrated, volume 2".
And there's always the source :)
Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project
keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/
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