I have a Windows socket program (XP and above) that calls WSAStartup. Is it necessary to call WSACleanup before the program exits? If I don't, will there be any negative consequences? In particular...

Is it okay to register WSACleanup through atExit function ? We have several applications that can terminate at different points in the code so we would like to avoid putting WSACleanup everywhere t...

I have a c++ win32 program that uses sockets to download some data from a server. Before using sockets on Windows, WSAStartup must be called. MSDN says: "There must be a call to WSACleanup for eac...