https://github.com/stirlinglabs/sockaddr.net

Provides cross-platform socket address bindings for .Net
https://github.com/stirlinglabs/sockaddr.net

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Provides cross-platform socket address bindings for .Net

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/stirlinglabs/sockaddr.net
• Owner: StirlingLabs
• License: mit
• Created: 2022-02-15T20:59:33.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2022-10-05T09:16:24.000Z (about 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-05T14:07:25.971Z (15 days ago)
• Topics: dotnet, sockaddr
• Language: C#
• Homepage:
• Size: 349 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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README

        
![StirlingLabs.sockaddr.Net](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StirlingLabs/sockaddr.Net/main/sockaddr-dotnet.jpg)

> [libsa](https://github.com/StirlingLabs/libsa) provides cross-platform socket address bindings in C11, designed to be very portable and easy to use.  This allows higher-level network code to use a single format but still communicate effectively with low-level native platform code.

StirlingLabs.sockaddr.Net provides all of [libsa](https://github.com/StirlingLabs/libsa)'s functionality within .Net, avoiding additional memory allocations wherever possible.  It provides an opaque sockaddr* type that is purely pointers or off-gc-heap refs, such that it can be simply cast to/from any other opaque sockaddr* type.

So addresses from any application or API that uses native bindings can be simply cast to StirlingLabs.sockaddr* and then can be manipulated and read without concern for the underlying platform format, then can simply be cast back when being passed back to the application API.

### Why reinvent the wheel?

`sockaddr` isn't going to change once it exists on a platform, so it makes sense to just make a dedicated binding and interop library that can be used anywhere.

### Usage

Configure [GitHub Packages](https://github.com/StirlingLabs/Logging/blob/master/docs/GitHubPackages.md), then you can just:

```shell

dotnet add PROJECT package StirlingLabs.sockaddr.Net

```

or just use NuGet however you would normally.

### Support

Development of this project is supported by [Stirling Labs](https://stirlinglabs.github.io).