Editing Berkeley sockets (section)

===Alternatives===
The [[Streams (networking API)|STREAMS]]-based [[Transport Layer Interface]] (TLI) API offers an alternative to the socket API. Many systems that provide the TLI API also provide the Berkeley socket API.

Non-Unix systems often expose the Berkeley socket API with a translation layer to a native networking API. [[Plan 9 from Bell Labs|Plan 9]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/net/|title=The Organization of Networks in Plan 9}}</ref> and [[Genode]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://genode.org/documentation/release-notes/17.02#Linux_TCP_IP_stack_as_VFS_plugin|title=Linux TCP/IP stack as VFS plugin}}</ref> use file-system APIs with control files rather than file-descriptors.