From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 24 15:25:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA28094 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 15:25:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA28079 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 15:24:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA05946 for hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 00:24:47 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA01490; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 23:21:02 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 23:21:02 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alternatives to SYSV IPC? References: <3311084E.794BDF32@whistle.com> <199702240814.AAA07697@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199702240814.AAA07697@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Darren Reed on Feb 24, 1997 19:14:16 +1100 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Darren Reed wrote: > > how come no-one uses AF_LOCAL with SOCK_DGRAM? > > how portable is AF_LOCAL ? I think it's the posixized expression that avoids the U-word. It's very portable. :-) #ifndef AF_LOCAL # define AF_LOCAL AF_UNIX #endif -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)