socket programming

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Tue, 16 May 2000 tiddlerdeja at my-deja.com wrote:
> A server application can bind to a socket and listen for connections
> (e.g. smtp:25). Is it possible, say for testing purposes,  for another
> program to bind to the same socket at the same time and monitor the
> data i/o ?

   It is impossible. Who and by what means will demultiplex data stream?

Oleg.            (All opinions are mine and not of my employer)
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