socketpair() missing ?

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri May 2 10:32:54 EDT 2003


Peter Hansen wrote:
> I searched to find what this function does, and found a zillion 
> answers, but I don't seem to see any explanation of *why* you
> would want to do that.  
> 
> What's the use case for socketpair()?

It is used in the same contexts as pipe(2). However, it allows
bidirectional communication, and supports the socket API (send,
recv).

Regards,
Martin





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