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+/*
+** talker.c -- a datagram "client" demo
+*/
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/socket.h>
+#include <netinet/in.h>
+#include <arpa/inet.h>
+#include <netdb.h>
+
+#define SERVERPORT "4950" // the port users will be connecting to
+
+int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+ int sockfd;
+ struct addrinfo hints, *servinfo, *p;
+ int rv;
+ int numbytes;
+
+ if (argc != 3) {
+ fprintf(stderr,"usage: talker hostname message\n");
+ exit(1);
+ }
+
+ memset(&hints, 0, sizeof hints);
+ hints.ai_family = AF_INET6; // set to AF_INET to use IPv4
+ hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_DGRAM;
+
+ if ((rv = getaddrinfo(argv[1], SERVERPORT, &hints, &servinfo)) != 0) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "getaddrinfo: %s\n", gai_strerror(rv));
+ return 1;
+ }
+
+ // loop through all the results and make a socket
+ for(p = servinfo; p != NULL; p = p->ai_next) {
+ if ((sockfd = socket(p->ai_family, p->ai_socktype,
+ p->ai_protocol)) == -1) {
+ perror("talker: socket");
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ break;
+ }
+
+ if (p == NULL) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "talker: failed to create socket\n");
+ return 2;
+ }
+
+ if ((numbytes = sendto(sockfd, argv[2], strlen(argv[2]), 0,
+ p->ai_addr, p->ai_addrlen)) == -1) {
+ perror("talker: sendto");
+ exit(1);
+ }
+
+ freeaddrinfo(servinfo);
+
+ printf("talker: sent %d bytes to %s\n", numbytes, argv[1]);
+ close(sockfd);
+
+ return 0;
+} \ No newline at end of file