What does ECONNRESET mean in the context of an AF_LOCAL socket?

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Published on 2010-06-04T12:23:07Z Indexed on 2010/06/05 9:32 UTC
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I understand that for TCP sockets ECONNRESET has got something to do with RST packets. But I've seen ECONNRESET errors for AF_LOCAL sockets too, on read() and write() calls. What does this mean? How is ECONNRESET different from read() returning 0 or write() throwing EPIPE?

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