alt Hacker News> It's not UDP socket that gets created here, but Datagram socket
A datagram socket is a UDP socket, though. That's what the D stands for.
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Quarrel • today at 12:55 PM
To give a more nuanced reply versus the "you're wrong" ones already here, the difference is that UDP adds send and receive ports, enabling most modern users (& uses) of UDP. Hence, it is the "User" datagram protocol.
(it also adds a checksum, which used to be more important than it is nowadays, but still well worth it imho.)
meindnoch • today at 2:40 PM
Not every cola is Coca-Cola, even though "Cola" stands for cola.
Wrong way around: UDP sockets are datagram sockets, there are datagram sockets that are not UDP.