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UnixSocketAddressType
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.. currentmodule:: gi.repository.Gio


.. versionadded:: 2.26




.. class:: UnixSocketAddressType
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The type of name used by a :obj:`~gi.repository.Gio.UnixSocketAddress`.
:const:`~gi.repository.Gio.UnixSocketAddressType.PATH` indicates a traditional unix domain
socket bound to a filesystem path. :const:`~gi.repository.Gio.UnixSocketAddressType.ANONYMOUS`
indicates a socket not bound to any name (eg, a client-side socket,
or a socket created with socketpair()).

For abstract sockets, there are two incompatible ways of naming
them; the man pages suggest using the entire `struct sockaddr_un`
as the name, padding the unused parts of the ``%sun_path`` field with
zeroes; this corresponds to :const:`~gi.repository.Gio.UnixSocketAddressType.ABSTRACT_PADDED`.
However, many programs instead just use a portion of ``%sun_path``, and
pass an appropriate smaller length to bind() or connect(). This is
:const:`~gi.repository.Gio.UnixSocketAddressType.ABSTRACT`.













Fields
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.. rst-class:: interim-class

.. class:: UnixSocketAddressType
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   .. attribute:: ABSTRACT

      An abstract name







   .. attribute:: ABSTRACT_PADDED

      An abstract name, 0-padded
      to the full length of a unix socket name







   .. attribute:: ANONYMOUS

      Anonymous







   .. attribute:: INVALID

      Invalid







   .. attribute:: PATH

      A filesystem path