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Whither Sockets?

The article discusses sockets API (application programming interface). The author examines the conditions present when sockets API was developed in 1982 at the University of California Berkeley, as well as exploring the manner in which such conditions informed the way networking code has been writte...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 52; no. 6; pp. 51 - 56
Autor principal: NEVILLE-NEIL, GEORGE V.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Jun2009
Materias:
Application program interfaces
Computer operating systems
Computer networks
Information technology
Application software
University of California, Berkeley
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Sumario:The article discusses sockets API (application programming interface). The author examines the conditions present when sockets API was developed in 1982 at the University of California Berkeley, as well as exploring the manner in which such conditions informed the way networking code has been written. Additionally, the author describes developers' attempts to work around inherent limitations built into sockets API. Other topics include the future of sockets given the changes occurring in computer networks.