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On Mon, 10 May 1999, Chuck Youse wrote:

> 
> That's why you can create sockets in the UNIX domain (AF_UNIX, later
> renamed AF_LOCAL).  When you bind a UNIX domain socket, it's bound to a
> name in the filesystem.

Thanks for the reply. So a socket must be bound to something to be used. 
You mention a name in the filesystem, does the file exist before binding
or not? It seems to be a temporary file.

-Zhihui




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