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Anyone has the idea of what the function does? I read the man pages, but all I found out is that it is used for setting socket options (valid information indeed! ) So I was studying Beej's code, and stumbled upon some parameteres which are not explained in the man page except the SOL_SOCKET which could (or could not) mean Socket Operating Leve - Socket. But there was some SO_REUSEADDR and a pointer to a yes which was initialized with 1. Any ideas anybody?
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Correct, setsockopt is hopefully not O/S specific.
I mean, some differences may exists between implementations, but SO_REUSEADDR is certainly widely available.
Since your a SUN OS user, can you tell me for a newbie programmer in C what is better, Linux or Sun OS? Some friends told me that Sun OS is the best OS around, but still lacks much. What do you think?
In man setsockopt, you will find info. of how to set socket options. Now there are socket options specific to TCP, IP, RAW sockets, etc, which can be found in the specific man page. eg. man 7 tcp, man 7 ip, man 7 raw, etc. You can find SOCKET OPTIONS it the last of the each man page
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) So I was studying Beej's code, and stumbled upon some parameteres which are not explained in the man page except the SOL_SOCKET which could (or could not) mean Socket Operating Leve - Socket. But there was some SO_REUSEADDR and a pointer to a yes which was initialized with 1. Any ideas anybody? 
