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From: jin@hplabsz.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: BSD Sockets...
Message-ID: <1157@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM>
Date: Fri, 4-Dec-87 13:23:45 EST
Article-I.D.: hplabsz.1157
Posted: Fri Dec  4 13:23:45 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 8-Dec-87 03:53:52 EST
References: <772@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: jin@hplabsz.UUCP (Tai Jin)
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
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In article <772@louie.udel.EDU> garrett@udel.EDU (Joel Garrett) writes:
>The code that I am trying to port makes use of a full duplex socket stream
>According the HP-UX docs, the only socket support we have is for internet-
>style sockets, whereas we need to have a socket which supports the AF_UNIX
>type (used for stuff like pipes and interprocess communications according
>to the BSD docs).  Am I at a dead end without having to generate a lot of
>new code (ie re-write the bugger) or is there anything that will give me
>the equivalent of this?

We don't currently have AF_UNIX sockets, but is it really that much code
to convert it to AF_INET sockets?  The only change would be to the initial
connection code.

 ...tai