Most socket programming applications use the TCP socket APIs, which are roughly standardized between operating systems. If you just want to write a simple server and visualize clients talking on your server working in your process, which is pretty easy. However, your process cannot see socket connections talking to other processes on your computer with a typical socket API.
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