[Boost-users] socket type?

hi, i wanna to pass the same socket decriptor among differents functions, that way all work over the same socket, but i'm no sure what kinf o data is a socket descriptor? what kind o data must retunr my function? thanks ? getsocket() { } -- Ing Pedro Alonso Chaparro Valero Ciudad Politecnica de la Innovación iTEAM - Mobile Communications Group Polytechnic University of Valencia C\ Camino de Vera S/N, Edificio 8G 46022 Valencia, Spain