2.5 Database Files

The getXbyY()5 and WSAAsyncGetXByY() classes of routines are provided for retrieving network specific information. The getXbyY() routines were originally designed (in the first Berkeley UNIX releases) as mechanisms for looking up information in text databases. Although the information may be retrieved by the Windows Sockets implementation in different ways, a Windows Sockets application requests such information in a consistent manner through either the getXbyY() or the WSAAsyncGetXByY() class of routines.

5 This specification uses the function name getXbyY() to represent the set of routines gethostbyaddr(), gethostbyname(), etc. Similarly WSAAsyncGetXByY() represents WSAAsyncGetHostByAddr(), etc.