[ale] ls: what's a *leading* s

[joe at madewell.com (Joe Steele)]

It's a socket.  Active sockets can be seen with "netstat -a --unix".  
Old sockets which are no longer used can hang around on the file 
system if the program which created them fails to delete them.

--Joe

-----Original Message-----
From:	David Corbin [SMTP:dcorbin at imperitek.com]
Sent:	Sunday, May 19, 2002 4:57 PM
To:	ale at ale.org
Subject:	[ale] ls: what's a *leading* s

srwxr-xr-x    1 dcorbin  dcorbin         0 Apr 28 10:12 8880

I found this in my /tmp directory.  What's the leading 's' mean in "ls 
-l" output?  I tried man, info, and google without much luck.


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