[LIP] Unix domain socket and netstat output query.

Hi everyone,

Greetings!

I am working on a project that requires me to work on
 Unix Domain sockets, but as of now I am not good 
enough at it, so obviously I am facing some problems 
while running the program.

I have a server that listens on a domain socket and a 
client that connects to the server on that socket.

When I netstat -l, this is what I get:

$netstat -l
Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign
Address         State
Active UNIX domain sockets (only servers)
Proto RefCnt Flags       Type       State        
I-Node Path
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     8063
    /tmp/expd

Here the Flags and State columns say that it is
listening for incoming connections. I cannot 
understand why the RefCnt column shows 2 when theres
just one process, the server, that is connected to 
the socket and I am not executing the server 2 times
nor am I forking it into two after creating the 
socket and the client's not trying to connect either.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks in advance.

Shehjar


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