Socket
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See: IPC, Computing Process, Unix.
References
1996
- (Wall et al., 1996) ⇒ Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Randal L. Schwartz. (1996). “Programming Perl, 2nd edition." O'Reilly. ISBN:1565921496
- socket: An endpoint for network communication between two processes, that works much like a telephone. The most important thing about a socket is its network address (like a phone number). Different kinds of sockets have different kinds of addresses - some look like filenames, and some don't.