A Unix domain socket (UDS), local socket, or inter-process communication (IPC) socket is a communication endpoint for exchanging data between processes...

A Berkeley (BSD) socket is an application programming interface (API) for Internet domain sockets and Unix domain sockets, used for inter-process communication...

files in Unix-based systems. POSIX defines categories: regular, directory, symbolic link, FIFO special, block special, character special, and socket. An operating...

stack creates a handle for each socket created by an application, commonly referred to as a socket descriptor. In Unix-like operating systems, this descriptor...

Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), also known as Berkeley Unix, is a discontinued Unix operating system developed and distributed by the Computer Systems...

mkfifoat() fdopendir() Unix file descriptors behave in many ways as capabilities. They can be passed between processes across Unix domain sockets using the sendmsg()...

is pulled Ball and socket joint Network socket, an end-point in a communication across a network or the Internet Unix domain socket, an end-point in local...

The Unix command fuser is used to show which processes are using a specified computer file, file system, or Unix socket. For example, to check process...

Unix System V (pronounced: "System Five") is one of the first commercial versions of the Unix operating system. It was originally developed by AT&T and...

developed for Unix and later codified by POSIX and Single UNIX Specification, it is supported in many operating systems today, including Unix-like variants...

socket. However it was a design goal of Windows Sockets that it should be relatively easy for developers to port socket-based applications from Unix to...

interface) and network protocol statistics. It is available on Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and Unix-like operating systems including macOS, Linux, Solaris and...

The Unix philosophy, originated by Ken Thompson, is a set of cultural norms and philosophical approaches to minimalist, modular software development. It...

provided by AT&T UNIX System V Release 3 (SVR3) in 1987 and continued into Release 4 (SVR4). TLI was the System V counterpart to the BSD sockets programming...

Research Unix refers to the early versions of the Unix operating system for DEC PDP-7, PDP-11, VAX and Interdata 7/32 and 8/32 computers, developed in...

different userspace processes, in a way similar to the Unix domain sockets available on certain Unix-like operating systems, including its original incarnation...

Unix Wars". The Art of UNIX Programming. Stevens, W. Richard; Fenner, Bill; Rudoff, Andrew M. (2003). Unix Network Programming, Volume 1: The Sockets...

be renamed, and may be opened like regular files. Under Unix derivatives, Unix-domain sockets appear as S_IFSOCK-type files in the filesystem, can be...

In Unix and operating systems inspired by it, the file system is considered a central component of the operating system. It was also one of the first parts...

defined in August 2018. TLS builds on the now-deprecated SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) specifications (1994, 1995, 1996) developed by Netscape Communications...

required. Tools like netcat and socat can connect pipes to TCP/IP sockets. All widely used Unix shells have a special syntax construct for the creation of pipelines...

select is a system call and application programming interface (API) in Unix-like and POSIX-compliant operating systems for examining the status of file...

depth tutorial on sockets, transport level interface (TLI), interprocess communications (IPC) facilities under System V and BSD UNIX." The book has been...

Stevens, W. Richard; Fenner, Bill; Rudoff, Andrew M. (2004), UNIX Network Programming: The sockets networking API, Addison-Wesley professional computing series...

HP-UX (from "Hewlett Packard Unix") is a proprietary implementation of the Unix operating system developed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise; current versions...

reporting the type of data contained in a file. It is commonly supported in Unix and Unix-like operating systems. As the command uses relatively quick-running...

the first release of Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) in 1998. Windows C Runtime Library and Windows Sockets API implement commonly used POSIX API functions...

A shell script is a computer program designed to be run by a Unix shell, a command-line interpreter. The various dialects of shell scripts are considered...

applications since the 1990s, primarily in Unix workstations. These early uses predate the availability of modern LGA sockets, and instead used land grid arrays...

capabilities via Unix sockets. These file descriptors not only control access to the file system, but also to other devices like the network sockets. Flags are...