1<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968"><title>enum sock_type</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Linux Networking and Network Devices APIs"><link rel="up" href="netcore.html#idp1093082748" title="Networking Base Types"><link rel="prev" href="netcore.html" title="Chapter&#160;1.&#160;Linux Networking"><link rel="next" href="API-struct-socket.html" title="struct socket"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center"><span class="phrase">enum sock_type</span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="netcore.html">Prev</a>&#160;</td><th width="60%" align="center">Networking Base Types</th><td width="20%" align="right">&#160;<a accesskey="n" href="API-struct-socket.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="refentry"><a name="API-enum-sock-type"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>enum sock_type &#8212; 
2  Socket types
3 </p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><pre class="programlisting">
4enum sock_type {
5  SOCK_STREAM,
6  SOCK_DGRAM,
7  SOCK_RAW,
8  SOCK_RDM,
9  SOCK_SEQPACKET,
10  SOCK_DCCP,
11  SOCK_PACKET
12};  </pre></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp1094712900"></a><h2>Constants</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term">SOCK_STREAM</span></dt><dd><p>
13stream (connection) socket
14      </p></dd><dt><span class="term">SOCK_DGRAM</span></dt><dd><p>
15datagram (conn.less) socket
16      </p></dd><dt><span class="term">SOCK_RAW</span></dt><dd><p>
17raw socket
18      </p></dd><dt><span class="term">SOCK_RDM</span></dt><dd><p>
19reliably-delivered message
20      </p></dd><dt><span class="term">SOCK_SEQPACKET</span></dt><dd><p>
21sequential packet socket
22      </p></dd><dt><span class="term">SOCK_DCCP</span></dt><dd><p>
23Datagram Congestion Control Protocol socket
24      </p></dd><dt><span class="term">SOCK_PACKET</span></dt><dd><p>
25linux specific way of getting packets at the dev level.
26For writing rarp and other similar things on the user level.
27      </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp1092814668"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>
28   When adding some new socket type please
29   grep ARCH_HAS_SOCKET_TYPE include/asm-* /socket.h, at least MIPS
30   overrides this enum for binary compat reasons.
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