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What are the major differences between Winsock and *nix BSD socket implementations?

pattivacek
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TL36
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    You should accept one of the answers below if they've helped you out. Personally, I have found both answers present as of writing to be quite helpful. – pattivacek Jul 09 '13 at 16:38

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You might want to look here.
To that, I'd drop one more difference, winsocks supports overlapped I/O (with callbacks etc.) through functions like WSARecv (and other similar), which can make porting to bsd-sockets harder. Also, most functions in winsocks has their Wsa* counterpart, which sometimes offers more options (or at least requires more parameters ;) ), like [recv](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms740121(VS.85).aspx) and [WSARecv](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms741688(VS.85).aspx).

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See this section of the documentation:

Porting Socket Applications to Winsock

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