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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: socket ops
To: guido@gvr.org (Guido van Rooij)
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 22:38:31 +0000 (GMT)
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In-Reply-To: <199801182234.XAA24903@gvr.gvr.org> from "Guido van Rooij" at Jan 18, 98 11:34:25 pm
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> The problem here is that the struct file underneath the file descriptor
> is of type DTYPE_SOCKET. However, there *is* a backing vnode if the
> socket happens to be in the unix domain. Indeed there is no simpe
> way (I think) to find that out runtime. But that was not the question.
> 
> I still think it is a bit strange we cannot use f*() functions on 
> files in the unix name space. 

I didn't say it wasn't stupid, I just answered your "why" question.

If I had my "druthers", I would delete struct fileops; however, I rarely
am allowed "druthers".


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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