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Whither Sockets?: High bandwidth, low latency, and multihoming challenge the sockets API.

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One of the most pervasive and longest-lasting interfaces in software is the sockets API. Developed by the Computer Systems Research Group at the University of California at Berkeley, the sockets API was first released as part of the 4.1c BSD operating system in 1982. While there are longer-lived APIs, it is quite impressive for an API to have remained in use and largely unchanged for 27 years. The only major update to the sockets API has been the extension of ancillary routines to accommodate the larger addresses used by IPv6.

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cover image Queue
Queue  Volume 7, Issue 4
Sockets
May 2009
10 pages
ISSN:1542-7730
EISSN:1542-7749
DOI:10.1145/1538947
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Published: 01 May 2009
Published in QUEUE Volume 7, Issue 4

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