[mdlug] C Library for network applications

[Joseph C. Bender]

David Lee Lambert wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 February 2007 12:34 pm, Wojtak, Greg wrote:
>> Does anyone have any experience using any of the network libraries
>> available out there?  I am writing a small network based daemon and don¹t
>> want to learn the intricacies of network programming in order to accomplish
>> this otherwise small program.
> 
> If you're willing to work in C++ or Java,  there are really easy base-classes 
> you can use or extend to create a simple TCP server.  In Qt 4 (C++),  use the 
> QTcpSocket class:
> 
	Linking against Qt would preclude it being "small".  There's nothing 
like going to install what looks to be a simple network util and finding 
that it needs to download a few dozen megabytes of libs because someone 
decided to link against Qt or GTK.  Or worse, both.

I second the suggestion to use xinetd and stdin/out.  Additionally, you 
might want to also take a took at DJB's tcpserver, which is part of his 
ucspi-tcp utility software set, which provides several other handy 
things and is fairly portable.  http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/tcpserver.html



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Joseph Bender
Bendorius Consulting
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