sockaddr、sockaddr_in的区别与联系

先看下MSDN上怎么说

The sockaddr structure varies depending on the protocol selected. Except for the sa_family parameter, sockaddr contents are expressed in network byte order.

struct sockaddr {
  u_short    sa_family;
  char       sa_data[14];
};   

sockaddr根据选择的协议而改变，除了sa_family参数，sockaddr包含的内容用网络字节顺序表示

In the Internet address family, this structure is used by Windows Sockets to specify a local or remote endpoint address to which to connect a socket. This is the form of the SOCKADDR structure specific to the Internet address family and can be cast to SOCKADDR.

struct sockaddr_in{
 short sin_family;
 unsigned short sin_port;
 IN_ADDR sin_addr;
 char sin_zero[8];};

在因特网地址家族中，该结构体被用在Windows套接字编程中去连接一个指定的本地或远程套接字。这是特殊的网络地址家族形式并且可以强制转换为SOCKADDR

其实这两种结构体是一样的，只是后者在赋值时更方便罢了