Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!arisia!sgi!shinobu!odin!odin.corp.sgi.com!portuesi From: portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: DNET for SYS V Message-ID: Date: 28 Jul 89 13:33:30 GMT References: <907@corpane.UUCP> Sender: news@odin.SGI.COM Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mtn. View, CA Lines: 27 In-reply-to: shadow@pawl.rpi.edu's message of 28 Jul 89 09:02:25 GMT In article shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) writes: portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) said: MP> I would be interested in doing a port of DNET for Sys V The problem with DNet under SysV Unix is that it depends heavily on Unix-domain sockets in its current implementation. You'd really need a replacement. For a SysV machine with TCP sockets available, that could work. But without some sort of sockets, you are basically left with the pipe() call for IPC... which is useless for unrelated processes. Well, as it turns out, SysV Unix for the Iris supports TCP sockets, so it may be possible for me to port DNet so it runs on my workstation. So now my question is: How good would this be for the majority of SysV users out there? How many SysV ports offer support for TCP sockets? I'm still interested in hearing from anyone else who may be attempting the same task or thinking about it. --M -- Michael Portuesi Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, Inc. portuesi@SGI.COM