Re: How to check UID of process on the other side of local TCP/UDP connection

On 11/28/06, Filipe Varela <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't want to go off-topic but i have an important question. Isn't
> a socket a concept that translates an address and port? How would
> someone go about doing tcp/udp without sockets when they both depend
> on address/port mappings which are _literally_ sockets?
> Am i wrong?
Yes, You are.
Sockets are abstractions.
In fact, socket is an end-point of a bi-directional communication link.
It can be Unix, Internet Domain, some kind of IPC, whatever.
Google... :-)

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Sincerely Yours,
Vladimir Mitiouchev