STRUCT SOCKET(9)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the struct socket(9) page in the Kernel API Manual — this is literally all about the general BSD socket 👑✨. We’re gonna go through every single field, no skipping, no cap 💅.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

here’s the whole struct, copied exactly, do not touch the formatting bestie 🫶:

       struct socket {
           socket_state state;
           short type;
           unsigned long           flags;
           struct file             *file;
           struct sock             *sk;
           const struct proto_ops  *ops;
           struct socket_wq        wq;
        };

🫶 Members 🫶

okay now the members, one by one, because every field is iconic in its own way 💅:

• state — socket state (SS_CONNECTED, etc) 💖
• type — socket type (SOCK_STREAM, etc) 🎀
• flags — socket flags (SOCK_NOSPACE, etc) ✨
• file — File back pointer for gc 🧚
• sk — internal networking protocol agnostic socket representation 🦋
• ops — protocol specific socket operations 🔥
• wq — wait queue for several uses 🌸

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

if you wanna keep reading, these are the references, fr fr:

• Kernel file ./include/linux/net.h
• struct sockopt(9)
• enum sock_type(9)
• enum sock_shutdown_cmd(9)

okay that’s the whole page! this cutie comes from ./include/linux, dated October 2026, and it’s the struct socket(9) manual page — bye bestie, slay your kernel adventures 💖🦋✨