I’m getting started on socket programming, and I keep seeing this AF_INET.
Yet, I’ve never seen anything else used in its place. My lecturers are not that helpful and just say “You just need it”.
So my questions:
- What is the purpose of
AF_INET? - Is anything else ever used instead of it?
- If not, why is it there? For possible changes in the future?
- If so, what and why?