Socket

The socket class. More... The socket class is a simple wrapper over the socket descriptor.

Features of the socket class:

• exception thrown on error condition
• overloaded function name "send" and "receive"
• default parameters can be omitted for brevity

Using the socket class:

 extern sockaddr* address;
 char[1024] buffer;
 socket s(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM);
 s.connect(address, sizeof(sockaddr_in));
 s.read(buffer, 1024);
 s.shutdown();

Note that this socket class is an exposition of the operating system primitives; the true generic representation of a communication stream is the basic_socketbuf template class.

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