On Thu, 24 Mar 2022 19:29:03 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote:

>The ISPF display for special files only says "Char", which doesn't tell you 
>enough.
>
>To see what it really is, you need to do "ls -al: command:
>On my z/OS V2R4 system:
>
>> ls -al /var/CEAServer
>srwxrwxrwx   1 OMVSKERN OMVSGRP        0 Mar 21 13:47 /var/CEAServer
>
>The "s" means that this is a Unix-domain socket file.   These are created by a 
>program that does a "bind()" in AF_UNIX.  I don't think that you can copy or 
>create these otherwise.
> 
Why is the executable bit set on a socket  file?


>I'm not sure what this is for, but if you want to move it from /var, I would 
>look at some CEA documentation to see if the location is configurable.

-- 
gil

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