Unix-Domain-Socket

Brief A Unix domain socket or IPC socket is a data communications endpoint for exchanging data between processes executing on the same host operating system. The API for Unix domain sockets is similar to that of an Internet socket, but rather than using an underlying network protocol, all communication occurs entirely within the operating system kernel. Unix domain sockets use the file system as their address namespace. Processes reference Unix domain sockets as file system inodes, so two processes can communicate by opening the same socket....