SciLocalSocket protocols Represents a local ipc socket and provides a service to create, manage and use the socket. Only available on UNIX platforms. Note: Local Socket message size limitations. By default, the send and receive buffers used for local sockets are set at 32 KB (32768 bytes). In addition, there are platform-dependent limitations the programmer should be aware of. • On Linux, the size of messages sent over a local socket should not exceed 63 KB, (64,512 bytes). • On Solaris, the message size should not exceed 64 KB (65536 bytes). • On HP-UX, the message size should not exceed 32 KB (32768 bytes). • Finally, at the time of this writing, the limits on AIX are 2 KB (2048 bytes) for local datagram sockets and 4 KB (4096 bytes) for local stream sockets. SciLocalSocket has the following methods:
