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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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Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 13:07:42 PST
From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
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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

Is AF_LOCAL/SOCK_DGRAM posix 1003.1g?

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marty
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