Perl Programming/Keywords/socket
The socket keyword
editThe socket function opens a socket of the specified kind and attaches it to filehandle SOCKET. The DOMAIN, TYPE, and PROTOCOL are specified in the same way as for syscall.
Syntax
edit socket SOCKET, DOMAIN, TYPE, PROTOCOL
Examples
edituse Socket;
$proto = getprotobyname("tcp");
socket(SOCK, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, $proto) || die "socket: $!";