ENUM SOCK_TYPE(9) Linux Networking ENUM SOCK_TYPE(9)

NAME enum_sock_type - Socket types

SYNOPSIS enum sock_type { SOCK_STREAM, SOCK_DGRAM, SOCK_RAW, SOCK_RDM, SOCK_SEQPACKET, SOCK_DCCP, SOCK_PACKET };

CONSTANTS SOCK_STREAM stream (connection) socket

SOCK_DGRAM datagram (conn.less) socket

SOCK_RAW raw socket

SOCK_RDM reliably-delivered message

SOCK_SEQPACKET sequential packet socket

SOCK_DCCP Datagram Congestion Control Protocol socket

SOCK_PACKET linux specific way of getting packets at the dev level. For writing rarp and other similar things on the user level.

DESCRIPTION When adding some new socket type please grep ARCH_HAS_SOCKET_TYPE include/asm-* /socket.h, at least MIPS overrides this enum for binary compat reasons.