socket functions: what's the difference..

[BlueKai]

between using

$sock = socket_create_listen();

and

$sock = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, SOL_TCP);
socket_bind($sock);
socket_listen($sock);

I've read through the documentation and googled and most of the examples for sockets use the three basic functions with no mention of socket_create_listen(). I know you have more flexibility with the second way, but I'm using AF_INET and I don't need think I need to restrict the domain.

Any opinions?

[bpat1434]

Well, from my limited knowledge of sockets, I would bet the biggest difference is that socket_create_listen will actually listen on ALL interfaces, while socket_listen will only listen on the interface that <socket> is bound to. I could be wrong, but it's a guess.

It could also be that socket_create_listen is just a more simplified and possibly more efficient way to do what you did in your second code post. Kind of like [man]mysql_fetch_array[/man] vs [man]mysql_fetch_assoc[/man].

Just a best gues...