All Linux distributions provide a wide range of network applications—from dæmons that provide a variety of services such as WWW, mail and SSH to client programs that access one or more of these ...

Those examples aren't very convincing, are they? I'll admit upfront that I have always been a big W. Richard Stevens fan, and I adore shared libraries. I must say I found this presentation very ...

I have a quick question about socket programming on a Linux box. I know it is more efficient to use C as opposed to Java as the programming language. I don't know if I have a brain freeze or ...

Sockets are the foundation of modern Internet communication. Find out how easy they are to use. This is an extract from our latest book on the ESP in C. Sockets are a general-purpose way of ...

EFAULT seems appropriate, yes; SIGSEGV would be disappointing. Though, looking up a few send(2) manpages I cannot really conclude that NULL would be an invalid address (I consulted a Solaris manpage ...