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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?
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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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