In two cases it was necessary to rename functions which are used in Berkeley Sockets in order to avoid clashes with other APIs.
close() & closesocket() In Berkeley Sockets, sockets are represented by standard file descriptors, and so the close() function can be used to close sockets as well as regular files. While nothing in the Windows Sockets API prevents an implementation from using regular file handles to identify sockets, nothing requires it either. Socket descriptors are not presumed to correspond to regular file handles, and file operations such as read(), write(), and close() cannot be assumed to work correctly when applied to socket descriptors. Sockets must be closed by using the closesocket() routine. Using the close() routine to close a socket is incorrect and the effects of doing so are undefined by this specification.
ioctl() & ioctlsocket()
Various C language run-time systems use the ioctl() routine for purposes unrelated to Windows Sockets. For this reason we have defined the routine ioctlsocket() which is used to handle socket functions which in the Berkeley Software Distribution are performed using ioctl() and fcntl().