It's the inode. It'll match a socket that shows up in "netstat -a"
Only if it's a UNIX socket - there's no equiv. entry for TCP (or UDP) sockets. I still get 'socket:[nnnnnn]' for TCP comms., but I can't see what /that/ number refers to.
-- [neil@xxx ~]# rm -f .signature [neil@xxx ~]# ls -l .signature ls: .signature: No such file or directory [neil@xxx ~]# exit