basics of socket

Introducing Sockets

Friday, October 4, 1957, marked the beginning of a startling new era. The Soviet Union had launched the world's first artificial satellite into the Earth's orbit, known as Sputnik. Approximately

the size of a basketball, this satellite took 98 minutes to orbit the Earth. Anyone with a shortwave radio was able to hear it during overhead passes, at a frequency of approximately 40.002Mhz. Who would have imagined at that time, that this would later spawn the beginnings of TCP/IP and the Internet?

From this post I will try to introduce you

• A brief history of how sockets were developed 
• The essence of sockets 
• How sockets are referenced by the Linux kernel and application programs 
• An introductory example of a socket C program

Here are the topics that I am covering to explain the above concepts

• History of sockets
• Understanding Sockets
• Comparing Sockets to Pipes
• Creating Sockets
• Performing I/O on Sockets
• Closing Sockets
• Writing a Client/Server Example