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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2010-10-12 06:48:33 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2010-10-12 06:49:35 +0200 |
| commit | 4891f52a48eedebada868a48a04ee929261357b3 (patch) | |
| tree | 1c3d78514e51b4a76296210b8baac08bc39b1c77 /man7/unix.7 | |
| parent | fef0efe40b3c00669b9f434b00ca310fecec9448 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-4891f52a48eedebada868a48a04ee929261357b3.tar.gz | |
recv.2, cmsg.3, unix.7: global fix: s/UNIX socket/UNIX doamin socket/
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man7/unix.7')
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/unix.7 | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man7/unix.7 b/man7/unix.7 index 79effbe8d7..5ead1c5590 100644 --- a/man7/unix.7 +++ b/man7/unix.7 @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ The .BR AF_LOCAL ) socket family is used to communicate between processes on the same machine efficiently. -Traditionally, UNIX sockets can be either unnamed, +Traditionally, UNIX domain sockets can be either unnamed, or bound to a file system pathname (marked as being of type socket). Linux also supports an abstract namespace which is independent of the file system. @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ and (since Linux 2.6.4) for a connection-oriented socket that preserves message boundaries and delivers messages in the order that they were sent. -UNIX sockets support passing file descriptors or process credentials +UNIX domain sockets support passing file descriptors or process credentials to other processes using ancillary data. .SS Address Format A UNIX domain socket address is represented in the following structure: @@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ Creation of a new socket will fail if the process does not have write and search (execute) permission on the directory the socket is created in. Connecting to the socket object requires read/write permission. This behavior differs from many BSD-derived systems which -ignore permissions for UNIX sockets. +ignore permissions for UNIX domain sockets. Portable programs should not rely on this feature for security. |