computing, a Unix domain socket is a Berkeley socket that allows data to be exchanged between two processes executing on the same Unix or Unix-like host...
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A Berkeley (BSD) socket is an application programming interface (API) for Internet domain sockets and Unix domain sockets, used for inter-process communication...
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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...
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File descriptor (category Unix file system technology)
mkfifoat() fdopendir() Unix file descriptors behave in many ways as capabilities. They can be passed between processes across Unix domain sockets using the sendmsg()...
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symbolic links, directory junction points, volume mount points and Unix domain sockets. Also, reparse points are used as placeholders for files moved by...
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utility. Other socket types are implemented over other transport protocols, such as Systems Network Architecture and Unix domain sockets for internal inter-process...
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methods it supports. For instance, in Unix-like operating systems such as Linux libdbus typically uses Unix domain sockets as the underlying transport method...
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The seven standard Unix file types are regular, directory, symbolic link, FIFO special, block special, character special, and socket as defined by POSIX...
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Netlink (section Netlink socket families)
different userspace processes, in a way similar to the Unix domain sockets available on certain Unix-like operating systems, including its original incarnation...
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TCP/IP Illustrated (section Volume 3: TCP for Transactions, HTTP, NNTP, and the UNIX Domain Protocols)
Transfer Protocol) NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol) UNIX Domain Protocols (see Unix domain socket) As with Volume 2, examples from 4.4BSD-Lite are used...
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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...
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Everything is a file (category Unix file system technology)
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...
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operation. It is sometimes presented as Cluster Domain Sockets, in contrast to the well-known Unix Domain Socket service; the latter working only on a single...
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I3 (window manager) (category Unix windowing system-related software)
achieved via a plain text file and extending i3 is possible using its Unix domain socket and JSON based IPC interface from many programming languages. Like...
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Distribution Service Database-as-IPC Protected procedure call Stevens, Richard. UNIX Network Programming, Volume 2, Second Edition: Interprocess Communications...
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Sway (window manager) (category Unix windowing system-related software)
shift key. Like i3, Sway can be extended and manipulated using its Unix domain socket and JSON-based IPC interface from many programming languages. Sway's...
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application programming interface connects to the database using a Unix domain socket, while a TCP connection via the loopback interface requires the direct...
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File locking (section In Unix-like systems)
status on open file descriptors passed to another process using a Unix domain socket is implementation dependent. One source of lock failure occurs when...
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developer based in Sweden United Drapery Stores, former UK retail group Unix domain socket, data communications endpoint Université de Sherbrooke (UdS) Sherbrooke...
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Early versions of OpenSSH had an exploitable race condition for Unix domain sockets. They remain a problem in modern systems; as of 2019, a TOCTOU race...
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subproject in 2009, shepherded by Chris Darroch. It only supports Unix domain sockets, no TCP sockets. A third-party module mod_fastcgi is also being used. For...
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Shared memory (section Support on Unix-like systems)
on the same machine (of other IPC methods, only Internet domain sockets—not Unix domain sockets—can use a computer network), and care must be taken to avoid...
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GNU Hurd (category Unix variants)
hostmux (host multiplexer server) ifsock (server for sockets interface): Helps with UNIX domain socket addresses. init (init server): Basic system booting...
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abstraction layer to the underlying Unix kernel and presents the Zserv API over a Unix-domain socket or TCP socket to Quagga clients. The Zserv clients...
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between two hosts on a network. It supports Unix domain sockets, TCP, SCTP, DLPI and UDP via BSD Sockets. Netperf provides a number of predefined tests...
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Z shell (category Unix shells)
command Loadable modules, providing among other things: full TCP and Unix domain socket controls, an FTP client, and extended math functions. The built-in...
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Ratpoison, which is easily controlled through the keyboard and a unix domain socket. dwl - dwl is a wayland compositor, that was intended to fill the...
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Winsock (redirect from Windows Sockets)
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...
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Twisted projects variously support TCP, UDP, SSL/TLS, IP multicast, Unix domain sockets, many protocols (including HTTP, XMPP, NNTP, IMAP, SSH, IRC, FTP...
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member, fleetctl communicates with the local fleetd instance over a Unix domain socket; when used from an external host, SSH tunneling is used with authentication...
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