If I am creating multiple sockets in a loop and also accepting new
connections, then are the socket identifiers always uniquely assigned
in unix?
If I use the pipe command and the socket command in the same program
then will unix maintain the uniqueness of pipe identifiers and socket
identifiers combined?

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<rishi.shah@patni.com> wrote in message
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> If I am creating multiple sockets in a loop and also accepting new
> connections, then are the socket identifiers always uniquely assigned
> in unix?

Obviously two different sockets can't have the same identifier at the
same time.

> If I use the pipe command and the socket command in the same program
> then will unix maintain the uniqueness of pipe identifiers and socket
> identifiers combined?

A socket and a pipe can't have the same identifier because they share
namespace. For example, the 'close' function can be used to close either a
socket descriptor or a pipe descriptor.

DS

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