docket

n 1: a list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting) [syn: {agenda},

{agendum}, {order of business}]

2: a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to

[syn: {agenda}, {schedule}]

v 1: in law: place on the docket for legal action; "Only 5 of the

120 cases docketed were tried"

2: in law: make a summary or abstract of a legal document and

inscribe it in a list

socket

The {Berkeley Unix} mechansim for creating a

virtual connection between processes. Sockets interface

{Unix}'s {standard I/O} with its {network} communication

facilities. They can be of two types, stream (bi-directional)

or {datagram} (fixed length destination-addressed messages).

The socket library function socket() creates a communications

end-point or socket and returns a {file descriptor} with which

to access that socket. The socket has associated with it a

socket address, consisting of a {port} number and the local

host's network address.

{Unix manual page}: socket(2).

(1995-01-31)