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Re: what's the meaning: listening on a socket ?

From	"sl@exabyte" <sb5309@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.networking
Subject	Re: what's the meaning: listening on a socket ?
Date	2012-02-26 10:21 +0800
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> I'm still not sure I understand, but I'll try a guess.
>
> Let's say you already have a TCP socket A <--> B, and your program is
> at A. So the connection is already there, and now you want to read
> from B.
>
> {snip].....
>
> I'm not very good at explaining this. R W Steven's "TCP/IP
> Illustrated, vol 1" does a much better job; buy it if you can.
>
> You can also sit down and experiment. The combination of netcat +
> strace + tcpdump can show you most of the interesting cases.
>
> /Jorgen

Thanks Jorgen.

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what's the meaning: listening on a socket ? "SL" <sb5309@hotmail.com> - 2012-02-25 13:09 +0800
  Re: what's the meaning: listening on a socket ? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-02-25 09:39 +0000
    Re: what's the meaning: listening on a socket ? "sl@exabyte" <sb5309@hotmail.com> - 2012-02-25 21:59 +0800
      Re: what's the meaning: listening on a socket ? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-02-25 14:22 +0000
        Re: what's the meaning: listening on a socket ? "sl@exabyte" <sb5309@hotmail.com> - 2012-02-26 10:21 +0800

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