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From: marc@dumbcat.sf.ca.us (Marco S Hyman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Sockets in 386/ix
Keywords: sockets, ix, 386
Message-ID: <211@dumbcat.sf.ca.us>
Date: 28 Sep 90 06:04:34 GMT
References: <6168@uceng.UC.EDU>
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Organization: MH Software, Hayward, Ca.
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In article <6168@uceng.UC.EDU> sramacha@uceng.UC.EDU (Sridhar Ramachandran) writes:
    
    From the documentation of 386/ix,
    I understand that they don't implement Unix domain sockets.

Correct.

    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.

Check out a streams pipe [spipe(3i) in the 386/ix doc].  If that doesn't do
what you want make a connection to yourself.  A quick hack is to use the
loopback address.  Better is to do a gethostid or some such.

(enjoy)

// marc

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