usock(7sock)


usock -- UNIX domain sockets drivers

Description

These drivers are used as the transport mechanism, or more appropriately the interprocess communication mechanism, for processes communicating in the UNIX® domain. Two drivers exist: one provides connectionless service and the other provides connection oriented service. Both the drivers are loopback-TLI streams drivers. The socket driver (see sock(7sock)) passes data from the user to the UNIX domain sockets drivers which in turn pass the data back to the socket driver as appropriate.

Files

/dev/ticlts
device interface to the connectionless loopback transport provider

/dev/ticots
device interface to the connection-oriented loopback transport provider

/dev/ticotsord
device interface to the connection-oriented loopback transport provider with orderly release

References

socketpair(3sock), ticlts(7sock), ticots(7sock), ticotsord(7sock), unix(7sock)
30 January 1998
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