Linux Socket Programming by Example

Appendix . glossary

address family

A set of acceptable address formats for use with a particular network protocol.

ancillary data

Control data that is sent or received with normal data in a packet. Ancillary data normally includes user credentials or file descriptors transmitted over a PF_LOCAL/PF_UNIX socket.

API

Application Programming Interface.

ARPA

Advanced Research Projects Agency.

auxiliary data

Another name for ancillary data.

AX.25

An amateur radio adaptation of the CCITT X.25 network protocol for digital radio transmission.

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big-endian

The endian quality describes the byte ordering of a particular piece of digital hardware. Big-endian implies that the most significant byte occurs first in physical placement.

BPQ

In this book, BPQ refers ...