On 23 May 2006, Bruce Badger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chaps, > > Where is the specification of BSD sockets definitively expressed? > > What standards body is responsible for the specification? > > I read that BSD Sockets are a de facto standard (e.g. in RFC 2553), so > the answers may be nowhere and nobody respectively ... but I'm hoping > there is a body somewhere that owns the spec.
There is an Open Group standard that specifies it (POSIX 1003.1). But is this *the definitive standard*? What does that even mean? http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/listen.html -- Martin Pool -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
