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### 14.5 Local (Unix) Domain Sockets

Local domain (`AF_LOCAL`) sockets are also known as Unix-domain sockets, but were renamed by POSIX presumably on the basis that they may be available on other systems too.

A local socket address is a string, which is used to create a node in the local filesystem. This means of course that they cannot be used across a network.

— Class: sb-bsd-sockets:local-socket

> Class precedence list: `local-socket, socket, standard-object, t`

> Class representing local domain (AF_LOCAL) sockets, also known as unix-domain sockets.