help!! tli vs sockets?



can someone please compare/differentiate tli and sockets? what are the advantages to either one? disadvantages?

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originally posted by adiaconou
can someone please compare/differentiate tli and sockets? what are the advantages to either one? disadvantages?

thanks



standard reference for this is the w richard stevens book on unix network programming.

tli was superceded by xti. apple's opentransport used this as a networking model. advantages include supports more protocol families and able to send extra data at connection time if the protocol supports it. it has a host of problems centered around it's states with t_look().

sockets comes from bsd and has also been implemented on system v, linux, windows, os/2, os/400 and many more. this is basically the standard networking api at this level now.