7.3.9 Helper function for TCP connections

This helper function abstracts away TCP connection handling from the other examples. It is required to build some examples.

#if HAVE_CONFIG_H
# include <config.h>
#endif

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#define SA struct sockaddr

/* Connects to the peer and returns a socket
 * descriptor.
 */
extern int
tcp_connect (void)
{
  const char *PORT = "5556";
  const char *SERVER = "127.0.0.1";
  int err, sd;
  struct sockaddr_in sa;

  /* connects to server
   */
  sd = socket (AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);

  memset (&sa, '\0', sizeof (sa));
  sa.sin_family = AF_INET;
  sa.sin_port = htons (atoi (PORT));
  inet_pton (AF_INET, SERVER, &sa.sin_addr);

  err = connect (sd, (SA *) & sa, sizeof (sa));
  if (err < 0)
    {
      fprintf (stderr, "Connect error\n");
      exit (1);
    }

  return sd;
}

/* closes the given socket descriptor.
 */
extern void
tcp_close (int sd)
{
  shutdown (sd, SHUT_RDWR);	/* no more receptions */
  close (sd);
}