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

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

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...

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

symbolic links, directory junction points, volume mount points and Unix domain sockets. Also, reparse points are used as placeholders for files moved by...

utility. Other socket types are implemented over other transport protocols, such as Systems Network Architecture and Unix domain sockets for internal inter-process...

The seven standard Unix file types are regular, directory, symbolic link, FIFO special, block special, character special, and socket as defined by POSIX...

methods it supports. For instance, in Unix-like operating systems such as Linux libdbus typically uses Unix domain sockets as the underlying transport method...

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

using a Unix domain socket. ssh-agent creates a socket and then checks the connections from ssh. Everyone who is able to connect to this socket also has...