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Extreme C

By : Kamran Amini
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Book Image

Extreme C

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By: Kamran Amini

Overview of this book

There’s a lot more to C than knowing the language syntax. The industry looks for developers with a rigorous, scientific understanding of the principles and practices. Extreme C will teach you to use C’s advanced low-level power to write effective, efficient systems. This intensive, practical guide will help you become an expert C programmer. Building on your existing C knowledge, you will master preprocessor directives, macros, conditional compilation, pointers, and much more. You will gain new insight into algorithm design, functions, and structures. You will discover how C helps you squeeze maximum performance out of critical, resource-constrained applications. C still plays a critical role in 21st-century programming, remaining the core language for precision engineering, aviations, space research, and more. This book shows how C works with Unix, how to implement OO principles in C, and fully covers multi-processing. In Extreme C, Amini encourages you to think, question, apply, and experiment for yourself. The book is essential for anybody who wants to take their C to the next level.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
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Index

Network sockets

The other socket address family that is widely used is AF_INET. It simply refers to any channel established on top of a network connection. Unlike the UDS stream and datagram sockets, which have no protocol name assigned to them, there are two well-known protocols on top of network sockets. TCP sockets establish a stream channel between every two processes, and UDP sockets establish a datagram channel that can be used by a number of processes.

In the following sections, we are going to explain how to develop programs using TCP and UDP sockets and see real some examples as part of the calculator project.

TCP server

A program using a TCP socket to listen and accept a number of clients, in other words a TCP server, is different from a stream server listening on a UDS endpoint in two ways: firstly, it specifies a different address family, AF_INET instead of AF_UNIX, when calling the socket function. And secondly, it uses a different structure for the...