<abstract-socket>

Open abstract uninstantiable free class

Superclasses: <object>

The common superclass of all socket objects including <socket> (IP client socket), <server-socket> and <socket-accessor>.

Keywords:

socket-descriptor:

A Windows handle or UNIX fd (file descriptor) for the socket. In general users of the sockets API should not need to use this keyword. Only implementors of new socket classes should be interested.

Each subclass of <abstract-socket> must provide methods for close and for the following generic functions:

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System and I/O Reference - 31 MAR 2000