Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> added the comment:
The socket type is known as AF_UNIX, AF_LOCAL, Unix domain socket, and IPC (inter process communication) socket. The man page unix(7) http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/unix.7.html uses three of those four terms to explain the socket type: The AF_UNIX (also known as AF_LOCAL) socket family is used to communicate between processes on the same machine efficiently. Traditionally, UNIX domain sockets can be [...] The strace command also uses the name AF_UNIX and not AF_LOCAL. HTTP over AF_UNIX often uses http+unix:// or unix:// to refer to a socket file. I'm -1 to add the alias. It just adds to the confusion. It's also against the Zen of Python: "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." ---------- nosy: +christian.heimes versions: +Python 3.9 -Python 3.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue37152> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
