Hi,

I was just wondering about the functions fopen, fclose, socket and closesocket. When calling fopen or opening a socket, what exactly is happening (especially memory wise)?

Can opening files/sockets without closing them cause memory leaks?

And third, how are sockets created and what do they look like memory wise?

I'm also interrested in the role of the operating system (Windows) in reading the sockets and sending the data.