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Berkeley sockets

Berkeley sockets is an application programming interface (API) for Internet domain sockets and Unix domain sockets, used for inter-process communication (IPC). It is commonly implemented as a library of linkable modules. It originated with the 4.2BSD Unix operating system, which was released in 1983.

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Socket API functions

IPv4IPv6Backward compatibleStream socketsDatagram sockets
19 related topics

History and implementations

UnixOperating systemUniversity of California, BerkeleyAT&T CorporationInternet
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Protocol and address families

LinuxBSDRaw socketsUser spaceProtocol stack
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Blocking and non-blocking mode

BlockingRace conditionsFcntlIoctl
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Socket API functions

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Terminating sockets

Client-server example using TCP

Client-server example using UDP

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Berkeley sockets

Nodes69
Edges68
Triples18
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.028986
Components1

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Berkeley sockets

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related to history · 13
Berkeley sockets → All, AT, Berkeley, California, Corporation's, Even, Internet, It, MS Windows, Not, University, Unix, Winsock
related to Blocking and non-blocking mode · 4
Berkeley sockets → Berkeley, It, The, When
is a · 1
Berkeley sockets → application programming interface

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socket sockets address api used berkeley protocol unix interface tcp data functions may host connection descriptor posix use system listening

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Berkeley socketsis aapplication programming interface0.90text
Berkeley socketsrelated to Blocking and non-blocking modeBerkeley0.60section
Berkeley socketsrelated to Blocking and non-blocking modeIt0.60section
Berkeley socketsrelated to Blocking and non-blocking modeThe0.60section
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Berkeley socketsrelated to historyBerkeley0.60section
Berkeley socketsrelated to historyUnix0.60section
Berkeley socketsrelated to historyNot0.60section
Berkeley socketsrelated to historyUniversity0.60section
Berkeley socketsrelated to historyCalifornia0.60section
Berkeley socketsrelated to historyAT0.60section
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