socket(SOCKET,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL)

             Opens a socket of the specified kind and attaches it
             to  filehandle  SOCKET.  call of the same name.  You
             may need to run h2ph  on  sys/socket.h  to  get  the
             proper  values handy in a perl library file.  Return
             true if successful.  See the example in the  section
             on  Interprocess  Communication. Sockets are not yet
             supported on MS-DOS.