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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Alternatives to SYSV IPC?
To: matt@lkg.dec.com (Matt Thomas)
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> This can be done today with the BSD4.4 socket framework.  With AF_LOCAL
> (AF_UNIX) sockets and the use of MSG_EOR with send() and MSG_WAITALL
> with recvmsg() it does work.  I've attached a small example program
> (which works under FreeBSD 2.1.0 and Digital UNIX 4.0).

Matt: Thank you for this example!


					Regards,
					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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