man pages section 3: Library Interfaces and Headers

libsocket(3LIB)

Name

libsocket - sockets library

Description

Historically, this library provided the socket API, primarily used with the TCP/IP protocol suite. This functionality now resides in libc(3LIB).

This library is maintained to provide backward compatibility for both runtime and compilation environments. The shared object is implemented as a filter on libc.so.1. New application development does not need to specify –lsocket.

Files

/lib/libsocket.so.1

32-bit shared object

/lib/64/libsocket.so.1

64-bit shared object

Attributes

See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE Availability system/library/libc Interface Stability Obsolete Committed MT-Level See the manual page for each interface.

See Also

pvs(1), Intro(2), socket.h(3HEAD), intro(3), attributes(7)

History

The htonl(), htons(), ntohl(), and ntohs() functions were provided in the libsocket(3LIB) library in Solaris 2 through Solaris 10, and moved to the libc(3LIB) library in Solaris 11.0.

The rest of the historical content of the libsocket library moved to the libc(3LIB) library in Solaris 11.4.