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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers HELP!! TLI vs Sockets? Post 302120953 by porter on Monday 11th of June 2007 12:30:11 AM
Old 06-11-2007
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Originally Posted by adiaconou
Can someone please compare/differentiate TLI and sockets? what are the advantages to either one? disadvantages?

Thanks
Standard reference for this is the W Richard Stevens book on UNIX Network Programming.

TLI was superceded by XTI. Apple's OpenTransport used this as a networking model. Advantages include supports more protocol families and able to send extra data at connection time if the protocol supports it. It has a host of problems centered around it's states with t_look().

Sockets comes from BSD and has also been implemented on System V, Linux, Windows, OS/2, OS/400 and many more. This is basically the standard networking api at this level now.

Last edited by porter; 06-11-2007 at 05:15 AM..
 

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t_unbind(3NSL)					       Networking Services Library Functions					    t_unbind(3NSL)

NAME
t_unbind - disable a transport endpoint SYNOPSIS
#include <xti.h> int t_unbind(int fd); DESCRIPTION
The This routine is part of the XTI interfaces which evolved from the TLI interfaces. XTI represents the future evolution of these inter- faces. However, TLI interfaces are supported for compatibility. When using a TLI routine that has the same name as an XTI routine, the tiuser.h header file must be used. Refer to the TLI COMPATIBILITY section for a description of differences between the two interfaces. t_unbind() function disables the transport endpoint specified by fd which was previously bound by t_bind(3NSL). On completion of this call, no further data or events destined for this transport endpoint will be accepted by the transport provider. An endpoint which is disabled by using t_unbind() can be enabled by a subsequent call to t_bind(3NSL). RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned. Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned and t_errno is set to indicate an error. VALID STATES
T_IDLE. ERRORS
On failure, t_errno is set to one of the following: TBADF The specified file descriptor does not refer to a transport endpoint. TLOOK An asynchronous event has occurred on this transport endpoint. TOUTSTATE The communications endpoint referenced by fd is not in one of the states in which a call to this function is valid. TPROTO This error indicates that a communication problem has been detected between XTI and the transport provider for which there is no other suitable XTI error (t_errno). TSYSERR A system error has occurred during execution of this function. TLI COMPATIBILITY
The XTI and TLI interface definitions have common names but use different header files. This, and other semantic differences between the two interfaces are described in the subsections below. Interface Header The XTI interfaces use the header file, xti.h . TLI interfaces should not use this header. They should use the header: #include <tiuser.h> Error Description Values The t_errno value that can be set by the XTI interface and cannot be set by the TLI interface is: TPROTO ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |MT-Safe | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
t_bind(3NSL), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 7 May 1998 t_unbind(3NSL)
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