Looking at the examples from MSDN for windows sockets 2, they give this:
Code:
...
ZeroMemory(&hints, sizeof(hints));
hints.ai_family = AF_INET;
hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM;
hints.ai_protocol = IPPROTO_TCP;
hints.ai_flags = AI_PASSIVE;
// Resolve the server address and port
iResult = getaddrinfo(NULL, DEFAULT_PORT, &hints, &result);
if ( iResult != 0 ) {
printf("getaddrinfo failed: %d\n", iResult);
WSACleanup();
return 1;
}
// Create a SOCKET for connecting to server
ListenSocket = socket(result->ai_family, result->ai_socktype, result->ai_protocol);
if (ListenSocket == INVALID_SOCKET) {
printf("socket failed: %ld\n", WSAGetLastError());
freeaddrinfo(result);
WSACleanup();
return 1;
}
// Setup the TCP listening socket
iResult = bind( ListenSocket, result->ai_addr, (int)result->ai_addrlen);
if (iResult == SOCKET_ERROR) {
printf("bind failed: %d\n", WSAGetLastError());
freeaddrinfo(result);
closesocket(ListenSocket);
WSACleanup();
return 1;
}
freeaddrinfo(result);
...
my question is, is the getaddrinfo( really necessary? I mean, couldn't you just pass those values in hints directly to sockets( and bind( ?