What is a socket? known also endpoint

About

A socket is a session identifier for a connection between 2 processes via a particular protocol. It's also known as a IPC socket.

List

List of sockets and their transport protocols:

• netsocket: The net socket is the most well-known and permits communication with TCP and UDP between a server and a client
• Unix domain sockets (UDS), for internal inter-process communication (ie on the same host)
• Systems Network Architecture (SNA).
• Windows named pipe