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Glossary
The address
Address family:
format used to interpret
addresses specified in socket
operations. The internet
address family (AF_INET) is
supported.
Address: An Interprocess
Communication term that
refers to the means of labeling a
socket so that it is
distinguishable from other
sockets, and routes to that
socket are able to be
determined.
Advanced Research
Projects Agency: A U.S.
government research agency
that was instrumental in
developing and using the
original ARPA Services on the
ARPANET.
Alias: A term used to refer to
alternate names for networks,
hosts and protocols. This is also
an internetwork mailing term
that refers an alternate name
for a recipient or list of
recipients (a mailing list).
ARPA:
See Advanced Research
Projects Agency.
Glossary
ARPA/Berkeley Services:
The set of services originally
developed for use on the
ARPANET (i.e., telnet(1)) or
distributed with the Berkeley
Software Distribution of UNIX,
version 4.3 (i.e., rlogin(1)).
ARPANET: The Advanced
Research Projects Agency
Network.
Association: An Interprocess
Communication connection
(e.g., a socket) is defined by an
association. An association
contains the (protocol, local
address, local port, remote
address, remote port)-tuple.
Associations must be unique;
duplicate associations on the
same system may not exist.
Asynchronous Soc-
kets: Sockets set up via ioctl
with the FIOASYNC option to
be notified with a SIGIO signal
whenever a change on the
socket occurs. Primarily used
for sending and receiving data
without blocking.
Berkeley Software
Distribution: A version of
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