Port winsock code to linux

Is there a good guide on porting winsock code to something more linux
friendly? I have some networking code originally written for 2000/XP
that I'd like to run natively under linux. It doesn't look terribly
complicated (famous last words, I know ;-), but a guide would
definitely smooth things along.

Thanks,

Matt

Matthew Clark wrote:
> Is there a good guide on porting winsock code to something more linux
> friendly? I have some networking code originally written for 2000/XP
> that I'd like to run natively under linux. It doesn't look terribly
> complicated (famous last words, I know ;-), but a guide would
> definitely smooth things along.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
>

Porting windows socket code to Linux is pretty straight forward.

It is my understanding that both implementations are based on the
BSD sockets layer (with minor variations). both seem to be
similar, apart from not having to initalise winsock on linux

you might find the following guide useful

http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/

Chris.

chris dewbery wrote:

> Porting windows socket code to Linux is pretty straight forward.
>
> It is my understanding that both implementations are based on the
> BSD sockets layer (with minor variations). both seem to be
> similar, apart from not having to initalise winsock on linux

There are two differences that can bite you porting in this direction:

1) Linux does not have anything even remotely analogous to completion
routines, completion events, or completion ports.

2) Linux does not have anything like Windows events.

Note that if performance is an issue, it's much harder. The "best way"
to do things is totally different on the two platforms.

DS