What is the library file name where BSD’s socket(), recv(), send(), etc defined on Linux OS? (I’m using RedHat). Is the file located in /usr/lib?
What is the library file name where BSD’s socket(), recv(), send(), etc defined on
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What is the library file name where BSD’s socket(), recv(), send(), etc defined on Linux OS? (I’m using RedHat). Is the file located in /usr/lib?
They’re in glibc (libc.so/libc.a). You don’t need to link against anything special to use these functions on Linux.