Unix ___domain socket: Difference between revisions

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|page=1149}}</ref> This is similar to an ''Internet ___domain socket'' that allows data to be exchanged between two processes executing on different host computers.

Regardless of the ''range of communication'' (same host or different host),<ref name="lpi-p1150">{{cite book

|title=The Linux Programming Interface

|last=Kerrisk

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|isbn=978-1-59327-220-3

|page=1150}}</ref>, Unix [[computer program]]s that perform ''socket'' [[Inter-process communication|communication]] are similar. The only ''range of communication'' difference is the method to convert a name to the address parameter needed to ''bind'' the socket's connection. For a ''Unix ___domain socket'', the name is a <code>/[[Path (computing)|path]]/[[filename]]</code>. For an ''Internet ___domain socket'', the name is an <code>[[IP address]]:[[Port (computer networking)|Port number]]</code>. In either case, the name is called an ''address''.<ref name="lpi-p1150_quote">{{cite book

|title=The Linux Programming Interface

|last=Kerrisk