man pages section 3: Networking Library Functions

October 2012

This section describes the functions in the various networking libraries, including the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) library (libldap), the network service library (libnsl), the resolver library (libresolv), the remote procedure call libraries (librpcsvc and librpcsoc), the sockets library (libsocket), the X/Open Federated Naming (XFN) library (libxfn), and the X/Open network service library (libxnet). Readers of this section should be familiar with C programming language constructs.