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Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 10:35:09 -0800
From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
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To: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Alternatives to SYSV IPC?
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Darren Reed wrote:
> 
> 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

well as people were talking about using as a standin
for SYV_IPC I assume they are talking about
BSD based systems and they all have AF_LOCAL (== AF_UNIX)