APPLICATION LAYER
SOCKET INTERFACE PROGRAMMING
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Berkeley Software Distribution
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Microsoft architecture
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Linux architecture
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Unix programming model
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Detailed explanation-1: -Berkeley sockets is an application programming interface (API) for Internet sockets and Unix domain sockets, used for inter-process communication (IPC). It is commonly implemented as a library of linkable modules.
Detailed explanation-2: -A socket programming interface provides the routines required for interprocess communication between applications, either on the local system or spread in a distributed, TCP/IP based network environment. Once a peer-to-peer connection is established, a socket descriptor is used to uniquely identify the connection.
Detailed explanation-3: -A socket is one endpoint of a two-way communication link between two programs running on the network. A socket is bound to a port number so that the TCP layer can identify the application that data is destined to be sent to.
Detailed explanation-4: -The socket was invented in Berkeley as part of the BSD flavor of Unix. And it has become the standard way to communicate over the internet. Today all machines, be it Windows, Linux, or Mac, support the so-called Berkeley Socket API.