[ale] starting point recommendations

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 10:24 -0500, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> I have a strong need for a network daemon. Due to portability reasons it
> will need to be coded in C (not an area I am familiar enough with).

	Does it need to be a standalone daemon?  Can it be something that's
simply forked out of inetd / xinetd?  The later will be far far simpler,
especially if you are expecting multiple connections (otherwise your
daemon will need to manage it's own tasking / threading) or if the load
it going to be reasonably light.

> I am looking for recommendations from the C coders on the list for "best
> of breed" books to point me down the path to solid, secure network
> daemon coding in C for only Linux environments. I have K&R (the bible -
> duh!) and "Practical C Programming" by Steve Oualline (O'Reilly) (seems
> a bit useful but no network discussions). 

	Mike
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