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> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:26:03 +0200
> Balazs Scheidler <bazsi77@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > /dev/log is currently a SOCK_DGRAM socket, no need to connect, and no
> > need to accept, only sendto and recvfrom.
> On Linux and BSD. How about the rest? Solaris /dev/log is a streams
> device and afair HPUX was also something special.

solaris has a STREAMS device augmented with a door. HP-UX has a named pipe, AIX has a socket, Tru64 is a pipe or also a socket.

Some Linux platforms might still use SOCK_STREAM.