sockaddr_un(3type)

✨ sockaddr_un — the UNIX domain socket address glow-up ✨

okay bestie, so we're in the sockaddr_un(3type) page today 💅 yes that's the manual name, it's a type page, not a function — she's a type page, she doesn't do anything, she just IS. iconic behavior honestly.

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📚 LIBRARY

Standard C library (libc) 🫶

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🎀 SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/un.h>

struct sockaddr_un {
    sa_family_t  sun_family;  /* Address family */
    char         sun_path[];  /* Socket pathname */
};

look at her. two fields. no notes. 😌

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💖 DESCRIPTION

sockaddr_un — it describes a UNIX domain socket address. that's the whole thing, that's the job, she describes a UNIX domain socket address and she does it flawlessly fr fr 🦋

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⭐ STANDARDS

POSIX.1-2024. ✨

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🌸 HISTORY

POSIX.1-2001. she's been here since 2001 and she's still serving 💜

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👑 SEE ALSO

• sockaddr(3) — go read her sibling, they're a matching set 🎀

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and that's the page!! no cap, that's genuinely all of it — she's short, she's sweet, she's a struct and a dream 🌈💖

reminder bestie: this was Linux man-pages version 6.20, dated 2025-11-25 — so if you're reading this later and something changed, that's on the future, not on me 🙈

mwah, go build something cute with your sockets 🫶✨🎀💅