Local Namespace

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The Local Namespace

This section describes the details of the local namespace, whose symbolic name (required when you create a socket) is PF_LOCAL. The local namespace is also known as "Unix domain sockets". Another name is file namespace since socket addresses are normally implemented as file names.

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• Concepts :: What you need to understand.
• Details :: Address format, symbolic names, etc.
• Example :: Example of creating a socket.