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Definition: Unix socket
Also called a "Unix domain socket," a Unix socket is an interprocess mechanism for transferring data between processes in the same computer (see
IPC
). TCP/IP and Berkeley sockets are interfaces to a network. See
TCP/IP socket
and
Berkeley sockets
.
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