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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. |