Socket vs File descriptor

[KV Pavuram]

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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