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2.4.5 Sockets
- Sockets are the near-universal abstraction for using TCP and UDP
- Provides data structures for holding addresses and other
context information, and methods for sending and receiving data.
- Clients use sockets to talk to servers, often known as
daemons2.1
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Daniel Chalmers
2007-02-08