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Glossary of Data Communications Terms
Courtesy Enterprise-Wide Computing, Inc.
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Term:
socket
Definition:
the abstraction provided by Berkeley 4.3 BSD UNIX that
allows a process to access the Internet. A process opens a
socket, specifies the service desired (e.g., reliable
stream delivery), binds the socket to a specific
destination, and then sends or receives data. While the
functional characteristics remain as defined, the concept
has been generalized to include processes that access
networks other than Internet.
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