- socketpair
SOCKET1,SOCKET2,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL
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Creates an unnamed pair of sockets in the specified domain, of the specified type.
DOMAIN, TYPE, and PROTOCOL are specified the same as for the system call of the same name.
If unimplemented, yields a fatal error. Returns true if successful.
On systems that support a close-on-exec flag on files, the flag will be set for the
newly opened file descriptors, as determined by the value of $^F. See perlvar/$^F.
Some systems defined pipe in terms of socketpair, in which a
call to pipe(Rdr, Wtr) is essentially:
use Socket;
socketpair(Rdr, Wtr, AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, PF_UNSPEC);
shutdown(Rdr, 1); # no more writing for reader
shutdown(Wtr, 0); # no more reading for writer
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See perlipc for an
example of socketpair use. Perl 5.8 and later will emulate socketpair using IP sockets to
localhost if your system implements sockets but not socketpair.
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