socket
<networking> The Berkeley Unix mechansim for creating a virtual
connection between processes. Sockets interface Unix's standard I/O with its
network communication facilities. They can be of two types, stream
(bi-directional) or datagram (fixed length destination-addressed messages). The
socket library function socket() creates a communications end-point or socket
and returns a file descriptor with which to access that socket. The socket has
associated with it a socket address, consisting of a port number and the local
host's network address.
Unix manual page: socket(2).
(1995-01-31)
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