Unix domain socket
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socket for exchanging data between processes executing on the same OS; similar to an Internet socket, but all communication occurs within the same OS
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- Berkeley sockets
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- opposite of
- network socket
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/unix-socket
- different from
- network socket
- media type
- inode/socket
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