Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!ucbvax!MILANO.CISCO.COM!kozel From: kozel@MILANO.CISCO.COM (Edward R. Kozel) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: TCP socket message interface? Message-ID: <8908071548.AA14761@milano.cisco.com> Date: 7 Aug 89 15:48:54 GMT Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 17 >Has anyone built an IPC interface on top of BSD sockets to do asynchronous >message passing? Basically, what I want is a library that adds some record >structure to a TCP stream, so I don't have to deal with socket buffering and >waiting for input/output to complete. Ideally, I'm looking for something like >the TOPS-20 IPCF interface (for any of you who's memory goes back that far...) >that uses TCP sockets. I realize that this wouldn't be terribly difficult to >implement (though it might be tricky to do it "right"), but I'd rather not have >to do it myself if someone has already gone to the trouble...Vince, Vince, Check with Len Schlegel at SRI (schlegel@spam.istc.sri.com) for information on a procedural, non-blocking IPC extension package he's designed there. Ed Kozel cisco Systems