centos man page for enum_sock_type

Query: enum_sock_type

OS: centos

Section: 9

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ENUM
SOCK_TYPE(9) Linux Networking ENUM SOCK_TYPE(9)
NAME
enum_sock_type - Socket types
SYNOPSIS
enum sock_type { SOCK_STREAM, SOCK_DGRAM, SOCK_RAW, SOCK_RDM, SOCK_SEQPACKET, SOCK_DCCP, SOCK_PACKET };
CONSTANTS
SOCK_STREAM stream (connection) socket SOCK_DGRAM datagram (conn.less) socket SOCK_RAW raw socket SOCK_RDM reliably-delivered message SOCK_SEQPACKET sequential packet socket SOCK_DCCP Datagram Congestion Control Protocol socket SOCK_PACKET linux specific way of getting packets at the dev level. For writing rarp and other similar things on the user level.
DESCRIPTION
When adding some new socket type please grep ARCH_HAS_SOCKET_TYPE include/asm-* /socket.h, at least MIPS overrides this enum for binary compat reasons.
COPYRIGHT
Kernel Hackers Manual 3.10 June 2014 ENUM SOCK_TYPE(9)
Related Man Pages
socket(3socket) - sunos
socket(2) - netbsd
socket(3socket) - opensolaris
inet(4f) - ultrix
socket(2) - osx
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