[maemo-developers] Socket Programming on Maemo

[From: Sarah Newman]

libc6 is your socket provider.

http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Sockets.html

Maemo is linux under the hood no matter what the gui is or the weirdness 
of some of the embedded stuff like busybox.  Sockets are used like they 
are on any other linux platform, or else you couldn't compile & run 
standard programs without modification. netcat is one such example.

https://garage.maemo.org/viewvc/trunk/packages/netcat.xml/?revision=135&root=mud-builder

As far as learning how to use sockets, that depends on your language. 
If you don't know any well supported on maemo I suggest trying python.

Frank Banul wrote:
> I would look at source for existing projects for examples. Check out
> curl for getting data from a web page. Standard socket calls are
> available, I'm not sure which library provides them though.
> 
> Frank
> 
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Merrick Fonnesbeck
> <MFonnesbeck at sorenson.com> wrote:
>> Hey guys, how is socket programming done on the N800 / N810?  What libraries
>> do you use and how is it done?  Is there any examples somewhere that I can
>> learn from or a how-to article that any one knows of?  I'd like to open an
>> outside connection to another computer and communicate with it using sockets
>> and also open a web page using sockets through a maemo application and
>> download information from that page.  Thanks for any help.
>>
>> Merrick
>>
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