linux-kernel - Socket vs File descriptor

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Message-ID: <179773.9311.qm@web8404.mail.in.yahoo.com>
Date:	Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:51:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:	KV Pavuram <kvpavuram@...oo.co.in>
To:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Socket vs File descriptor

Hi,

Is there any  ioctl call to determine if a given descriptor is a file descriptor or a socket descriptor.

Similarly, is there a way to find out a socket descriptor type ie.e if it is SOCK_STREAM, or SOCK_DGRAM type.

Thanks
Pav


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