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-/* This example demonstrates:
-- conventional UDP socket API can be used in a connection-oriented fashion
-    - first setup with `bind` and `connect`
-    - henceforth communicating with connected peer using `send` and `recv` in blocking mode.
-*/
-#include <netinet/in.h> // definies socketaddr_in
-#include <stdio.h>  // defines printf
-#include <stdlib.h> // defines malloc, free
-#include <unistd.h> // defines close
-#include <arpa/inet.h> // defines inet_addr
-#define BUFSIZE 512
-int main() {
-    // --- setup ---
-    struct sockaddr_in addrs[2]; 
-    addrs[0].sin_family = AF_INET;
-    addrs[0].sin_port = htons(8000);
-    inet_pton(AF_INET, "127.0.0.1", &addrs[0].sin_addr.s_addr);
-    addrs[1].sin_family = AF_INET;
-    addrs[1].sin_port = htons(8001);
-    inet_pton(AF_INET, "127.0.0.1", &addrs[1].sin_addr.s_addr);
-    int fd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0); 
-    bind(fd, (const struct sockaddr *)&addrs[0], sizeof(addrs[0]));
-    connect(fd, (const struct sockaddr *)&addrs[1], sizeof(addrs[1]));
-    // --- communication ---
-    char * buffer = malloc(BUFSIZE);
-    size_t msglen, i;
-    msglen = recv(fd, (void *)buffer, BUFSIZE, 0);
-    for(i=0; i<msglen; i++) {
-        printf("%02X", buffer[i]);
-    }
-    // --- cleanup ---
-    close(fd);
-    free(buffer);
-    return 0;
-}