On Mon, 2005-01-24 17:18:03 -0200, r_zaca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Content-Description: Mail message body > Hello everybody, > > Does anyone know what a "unix domain socket" is, and how it differ from an > "Internet domain socket"?
Internet domain sockets work with IP addresses and port numbers. A unix socket merely is a special file on a local file system, a so calles "fifo". It's created with the "mkfifo" library call or userspace command. After you've created a fifo, which is displayed with a 'p' as the file-type at "ls -l" output, you can open/close/read/write it. > If you know a nice site or documentation about this subject, please tell > me. There's not much to tell about it. It's created once locally, then you can access it. Keep in mind that it's a purely local thing. You cannot export it by any means (I've seen people putting it on a shared NFS filesystem....). The data passed through the fifo is kept within the operating system's kernel; it's never ever written somewhere onto stable storage. MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] . +49-172-7608481 _ O _ "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg _ _ O fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier BÃrger" | im Internet! | im Irak! O O O ret = do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TCPA));
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