-@node sb-bsd-sockets
-@section sb-bsd-sockets
+@node Networking
+@comment node-name, next, previous, up
+@chapter Networking
@cindex Sockets, Networking
-The @code{sb-bsd-sockets} module provides a thinly disguised BSD socket
-API for SBCL. Ideas stolen from the BSD socket API for C and Graham
-Barr's IO::Socket classes for Perl.
+The @code{sb-bsd-sockets} module provides a thinly disguised BSD
+socket API for SBCL. Ideas have been stolen from the BSD socket API
+for C and Graham Barr's IO::Socket classes for Perl.
Sockets are represented as CLOS objects, and the API naming
conventions attempt to balance between the BSD names and good lisp style.
@end menu
@node Sockets Overview
-@subsection Sockets Overview
+@section Sockets Overview
Most of the functions are modelled on the BSD socket API. BSD sockets
are widely supported, portably @emph{(``portable'' by Unix standards, at least)}
@end itemize
@node General Sockets
-@subsection General Sockets
+@section General Sockets
@include class-sb-bsd-sockets-socket.texinfo
@include fun-sb-bsd-sockets-socket-listen.texinfo
+@include fun-sb-bsd-sockets-socket-open-p.texinfo
+
@include fun-sb-bsd-sockets-socket-close.texinfo
@include fun-sb-bsd-sockets-socket-make-stream.texinfo
@include fun-sb-bsd-sockets-non-blocking-mode.texinfo
@node Socket Options
-@subsection Socket Options
+@section Socket Options
A subset of socket options are supported, using a fairly general
framework which should make it simple to add more as required - see
@include fun-sb-bsd-sockets-sockopt-tcp-nodelay.texinfo
@node INET Domain Sockets
-@subsection INET Domain Sockets
+@section INET Domain Sockets
The TCP and UDP sockets that you know and love. Some representation
issues:
@include fun-sb-bsd-sockets-get-protocol-by-name.texinfo
@node Local (Unix) Domain Sockets
-@subsection Local (Unix) Domain Sockets
+@section Local (Unix) Domain Sockets
Local domain (@code{AF_LOCAL}) sockets are also known as Unix-domain
sockets, but were renamed by POSIX presumably on the basis that they
@include class-sb-bsd-sockets-local-socket.texinfo
@node Name Service
-@subsection Name Service
+@section Name Service
Presently name service is implemented by calling whatever
@code{gethostbyname(2)} uses. This may be any or all of