Copyright © 2001 Qusay H. Mahmoud
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Sockets
lAnalogous to telephones – provide the user with
an interface to the network
lThink of a socket as an end point of a Unix pipe
lUsed in the same way as a file descriptor:
–Creation
(open socket)
–Read/write
(receive/send to socket)
–Destruct
(close socket)
lTypes: SOCK_STREAM, SOCK_DGRAM, SOCK_RAW