This structure is the generic address structure for all address families used in Windows socket communication.
At a Glance
| Header file: | Winsock.h |
| Windows CE versions: | 1.0 and later |
Syntax
struct sockaddr {
unsigned short sa_family;
char sa_data[14];
};
Remarks
The actual structure is interpreted differently in the context of different address families. The only requirements are that the first u_short is the address family and the total size of the memory buffer in bytes is namelen.
The structure below is used with TCP/IP. Other protocols use similar structures.
struct sockaddr_in {
short sin_family;
u_short sin_port;
struct in_addr sin_addr;
char sin_zero[8];
};
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