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Started by NumbChucks Feb 14, 2003 at 1:17 PM 4 replies 750+ views

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Feb 14, 2003 at 1:17 PM

Hello, What is the function that I need to call, to fill in a SOCKET type. Here is a code snip... SOCKET Socket=NULL; As you can see, I initialized it to NULL, since I do not know the function. I will look up the parameters, if I just knew the function, lol. I am using Visual C++ 6.0, and the help files are horrible

Thanks you my friends.

niyaw

Feb 14, 2003 at 1:23 PM

a socket's "uninitialized" value is INVALID_SOCKET (-1), not 0.

as for how to create one - ask google.

you can start here.

[edited by - niyaw on February 14, 2003 2:26:17 PM]

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NumbChucks

Feb 14, 2003 at 3:52 PM

thanks

SyntheticHate

Feb 14, 2003 at 9:48 PM

WSAShutdown() seems like a logical name for the function to call when you''re done with winsock, but it''s actually WSACleanup(). I just thought I should let you know.

Fruny

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Fruny

Feb 15, 2003 at 9:18 AM

quote:
Original post by SyntheticHate
WSAShutdown() seems like a logical name for the function to call when you''re done with winsock, but it''s actually WSACleanup(). I just thought I should let you know.

That''s probably because in the BSD socket world shutdown() already is a function (I assume WSAShutdown() may exist too, does it ?) with a well defined meaning : to close one or the other ''direction'' (read or write) of a connection (which is different from close())

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