Introduction

Miknet is

• a TCP C networking library.
• more convenient than filling a sockaddr_in by hand.
• easy to use.
• thread safe; there are no globals.
• a blocking model with custom blocking duration; an application using it could be single threaded.
• IPV6 friendly! IPV4 and IPV6 are both supported.
• relatively straightforward to debug with; there are lots of return values.

Miknet is not

• fast enough for real-time games (see: TCP).
• mature.

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