UnixSocketAddressType

Added in version 2.26.

class UnixSocketAddressType

The type of name used by a UnixSocketAddress. PATH indicates a traditional unix domain socket bound to a filesystem path. ANONYMOUS indicates a socket not bound to any name (eg, a client-side socket, or a socket created with socketpair()).

For abstract sockets, there are two incompatible ways of naming them; the man pages suggest using the entire struct sockaddr_un as the name, padding the unused parts of the %sun_path field with zeroes; this corresponds to ABSTRACT_PADDED. However, many programs instead just use a portion of %sun_path, and pass an appropriate smaller length to bind() or connect(). This is ABSTRACT.

Fields

class UnixSocketAddressType
ABSTRACT

An abstract name

ABSTRACT_PADDED

An abstract name, 0-padded to the full length of a unix socket name

ANONYMOUS

Anonymous

INVALID

Invalid

PATH

A filesystem path