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by sph 1387 days ago
I've never seen the UDS acronym to refer to UNIX sockets.

Just call them UNIX sockets.
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eptcyka 1387 days ago
They're called UNIX domain sockets.

Just call them UDS.

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sph 1387 days ago
On the most popular UNIX-like operating system, Linux, there's are literally zero references to UDS to mean UNIX domain sockets.

  $ sudo mandb
  $ man -K UDS
The point is that acronyms that are not context appropriate and/or very uncommon are quite annoying to come across. I guess it was worth saving a dozen bytes not to write the full thing in the first place.
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