struct_socket(9)

struct_socket9

General bsd socket

Usage

struct socket {
  socket_state state;
  short type;
  unsigned long flags;
  struct socket_wq __rcu * wq;
  struct file * file;
  struct sock * sk;
  const struct proto_ops * ops;
};  

Members

state

socket state (SS_CONNECTED, etc)

type

socket type (SOCK_STREAM, etc)

flags

socket flags (SOCK_NOSPACE, etc)

wq

wait queue for several uses

file

File back pointer for gc

sk

internal networking protocol agnostic socket representation

ops

protocol specific socket operations

Releases

6 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7
  5. 8
  6. 9

From linux-manual-4.9 4.9.228-1 in Debian 9 (Stretch). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.