Re: Socket Programming Book Recommendations

From: Nicholas Dronen (ndronen_at_io.frii.com)
Date: 09/28/03 

Date: 28 Sep 2003 16:35:46 GMT

david_news2000 <david_news2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
dn> Any book recommendations for a beginner doing socket programming on
dn> AIX?

No such books exist. The Berkeley sockets interface doesn't vary
much from UNIXy operating system to UNIXy operating system. In fact,
they're so common that they're part of a standard:

        http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xnsix.html

That being said, IBM does have this documentation:

        http://publib16.boulder.ibm.com/pseries/en_US/aixprggd/progcomc/progcomctfrm.htm

dn> I've seen rave reviews of the late Richard Stevens' books, but he seem
dn> to be writing for System 7 and Postix?

POSIX.

dn> Does it matter?

No, it shouldn't matter. You'll find little or no use for the TLI
section of his book, but the rest is handy.

Regards,

Nicholas 

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