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What is a socket link?

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After noticing an interesting environment variable Apple_PubSub_Socket_Render. I notice that it was referring directly to this "Render" file. After doing a listing of "Render": I see the following output: As referenced in the ls manual page it notes this file as a "Socket Link" What is a socket lin…

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ls -lh Render

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To my understanding, it is a file that can be used to communicate between processes. Two processes would both open the file and then read and write to it. The data they write to it is received by the reading of the other process. It is somewhat like…

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