On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 22:20:49 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote: >P.S., in the networking world, it is called a port number. > Errr...no. Port numbers are relatively static, and the port numbers for Well Known Services are likely to be defined in /etc/services. Socket numbers are dynamic. So the well known port number for SMTP is 25, and if a process were to make two connections to port 25 (unusual, and perhaps a bad idea) those connections would get different socket numbers, neither of which is likely to be 25.
>On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Anthony Thompson wrote: >> A socket descriptor (which seems to be a fancy name for a number) is 4 bytes. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
