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From: sramacha@uceng.UC.EDU (Sridhar Ramachandran)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Sockets in 386/ix
Keywords: sockets, ix, 386
Message-ID: <6168@uceng.UC.EDU>
Date: 20 Sep 90 20:52:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati, College of Engg.
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HI,

I have been trying to port a version of our software on to the
system running 386/ix. This is essentially SYS_V 3.2
Unix. But the sockets facilities seem to be very hotch potch
and I have been unable to port my software, which uses both
Unix and INET domain sockets. From the documentation of 386/ix,
I understand that they don't implement Unix domain sockets.
Hence, I am trying to rewrite portions of our code that
uses Unix domain sockets and change them to ise INET domain
sockets. However, I haven't met with great success. I am not
even sure that it'll work.

I need Unix domain sockets to create a communication channel between
two processes. I know that this could have been done with other
IPC calls, but hey, I didn't write the original version. The call
that the software uses to do this is a "socketpair" call.


Does anyone on the net have any ideas about how this could be
implemented using just INET domain sockets.

Thanks in advance,
Sridhar.