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@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2000, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2000, 2008, 2010 Free Software Foundation,
+Inc."]]
[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license
-is included in the section entitled
-[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
For each supported `PF_*` protocol family, there is a file `/servers/socket/N`
where `N` is the numberic value fo the `PF_*` symbol. Right now
@@ -17,10 +18,10 @@ where `N` is the numberic value fo the `PF_*` symbol. Right now
User programs open those files, and use the `socket_create` [[RPC]] to make a
new socket. With that socket, they can use the other `socket_*` RPCs and also
the `io_*` RPCs. The `socket_*` RPCs are essentially clones of the [[Unix]]
-syscalls in question.
+[[system call]]s in question.
The only exception is `sockaddrs`, which are implemented as [[ports|libports]]
-instead of the opaque data arrays they are in the syscalls. You manipulate
+instead of the opaque data arrays they are in the system calls. You manipulate
`sockaddr` ports with the `socket_create_address`, `socket_fabricate_address`,
and `socket_whatis_address` calls. The `sockaddr` port is then used in socket
calls like `socket_connect` and `socket_accept`.