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- From: dsiebert@icaen.uiowa.edu (Doug Siebert)
- Subject: Must Unix domain sockets have a pathname?
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- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 06:03:17 GMT
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- Does a Unix domain socket (datagram, where sockets would be sending datagrams
- of from 5 - 500 bytes each to each other between processes) have to be bound
- to a name in the Unix filesystem? From the man pages I'd have to say "yes",
- but I distinctly remember a few times seeing something that made me think that
- unnamed sockets could exist. I know they can for sending to a named socket,
- but I'd have to name the other end...
-
- Its a really trivial point, I know, but it has me curious.
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