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From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Alternatives to SYSV IPC?
To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer)
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 19:14:16 +1100 (EDT)
Cc: matt@lkg.dec.com, terry@lambert.org, hackers@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <3311084E.794BDF32@whistle.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Feb 23, 97 07:17:34 pm
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In some mail from Julian Elischer, sie said:
> 
> >     if (socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, fds) < 0)
> >         perror("socketpair");
> > 
> 
> how come no-one uses AF_LOCAL with SOCK_DGRAM?

how portable is AF_LOCAL ?

Darren