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From: msc@qubix.UUCP (Mark Callow)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Unix philosophy
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Date: Mon, 19-Sep-83 16:34:07 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 19 16:34:07 1983
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You're right.  Someone has thought of it.  It's called  a socket and it's in
4.2bsd.  In the Unix domain a socket appears as a name pathname in the file
systems to which any process can connect a socket of it's own.  A pipe
is in fact implemented by creating a pair of sockets and connecting them.
-- 
	Mark Callow, Saratoga, CA.
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