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Programming with sockets

Socket types

Sockets have types that reflect the communication properties visible to a user. Processes are presumed to communicate only between sockets of the same type, although there is nothing that prevents communication between sockets of different types should the underlying communication protocols support this.

There are several types of sockets currently available:


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