Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 18:44:56 -0700 (PDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com> Cc: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What does unp stand for? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908221843490.6890-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908222002290.96579-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com>
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On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Bill Fumerola wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote:
>
> > In file uipc_usrreq.c, there are many routines beginning with unp_. For
> > example, unp_connect(), unp_bind(), etc. What does unp stand for?
>
> <guess>
> W. Richard Stevens wrote a book Unix Network Programming often refered
> to by UNP, which includes his improved versions of socket functions.
> </guess>
>
> The above could be completly wrong.
Actually, I'm pretty sure it standard for Unix network protocol, as in
good old PF_UNIX/PF_LOCAL.
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