Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!agate!shelby!portia.stanford.edu!portia!eran From: eran@elaine7.stanford.edu (eran yehudai) Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer Subject: binding sockets Message-ID: Date: 14 Sep 90 18:52:42 GMT Sender: news@portia.Stanford.EDU (USENET News System) Distribution: comp Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Lines: 7 I am trying to use bind() to create an entry in the file system for a socket. I find that a socket special file is created, but its name is only composed of the first two letters of the name I pass the system. The same phenomena occurs on both DEC3100 and a NeXT. Any ideas? -- Eran Yehudai eran@thsun1.slac.stanford.edu