Other Relevant System Calls

• struct hostent *gethostbyname (char *name);

  • get host address info using hostname as a string
  • may contain more than one inet address
  • would need h_addr field

• char *inet_ntoa (struct in_addr in);

  • convert in_addr type to string

• int stat (char *path, struct stat *buf);

  • gets info for a specified file
  • would need st_size field

• netstat

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