Pure interface to the Berkeley socket functions. Provides most of the core
functionality, so you can create sockets for both stream and datagram based
protocols and use these to transmit messages. Unix-style file sockets are
also available if the host system supports them.
WWW: http://docs.pure-lang.googlecode.com/hg/pure-sockets.html
PR: ports/156103
Submitted by: Zhihao Yuan <lichray at gmail.com>