DocsThe interface provides an API for use by applications. The functions in this API perform work that is common to all transports and systems, such as parsing an address into a host and port number. The functions in this API call transport specific functions that are contained in a table whose contents are defined at compile time. This table contains an entry for each type of transport. Each entry is a record containing mostly pointers to function that implements the interface for the given transport.
This API does not provide an abstraction for select()
or poll().
These functions are themselves transport independent, so an additional
interface is not needed for these functions. It is also unclear how such
an interface would affect performance.