Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Berkeley sockets is an application programming interface (API) for Internet sockets and Unix domain sockets, used for inter-process communication (IPC). It is commonly implemented as a library of linkable modules.The API represents a socket – an abstract representation (handle) for the local endpoint of a connection – as a file descriptor (file handle), due to the Unix philosophy that \"everything is a file\", and the analogies between connections and files: you can read, write, open, and close both. In practice the differences mean the analogy is strained, and one instead sends and receives on a connection.The API evolved with little modification from a de facto standard into a component of the POSIX specification. Therefore, the term POSIX sockets is essentially synonymous with Berkeley sockets. They are also known as BSD sockets, acknowledging the first implementation in the Berkeley Software Distribution."@en }
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- Berkeley_sockets abstract "Berkeley sockets is an application programming interface (API) for Internet sockets and Unix domain sockets, used for inter-process communication (IPC). It is commonly implemented as a library of linkable modules.The API represents a socket – an abstract representation (handle) for the local endpoint of a connection – as a file descriptor (file handle), due to the Unix philosophy that \"everything is a file\", and the analogies between connections and files: you can read, write, open, and close both. In practice the differences mean the analogy is strained, and one instead sends and receives on a connection.The API evolved with little modification from a de facto standard into a component of the POSIX specification. Therefore, the term POSIX sockets is essentially synonymous with Berkeley sockets. They are also known as BSD sockets, acknowledging the first implementation in the Berkeley Software Distribution.".