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From: mishkin@apollo.uucp (Nathaniel Mishkin)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Non-Internet domain sockets
Message-ID: <2b82aec6.3166@apollo.uucp>
Date: Thu, 23-Jan-86 14:53:05 EST
Article-I.D.: apollo.2b82aec6.3166
Posted: Thu Jan 23 14:53:05 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 24-Jan-86 07:32:39 EST
Reply-To: mishkin@apollo.UUCP (Nathaniel Mishkin)
Organization: Apollo Computer Inc., Chelmsford MA
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Summary: 

I've been attempting to understand how the Berkeley socket mechanism
is intended to be used with non-Internet domain sockets, but it seems
like the naming issue has not been addressed generally.  The framework
(e.g. the "sockaddr" struct type) is obviously designed to be
domain-independent, but in practice it seems hard to write
domain-independent programs.  For example, the various network programs
(like "telnet") seem to be mightily tied to Internet-style addressing.

My understanding is that 4.3BSD supports XNS -- does this mean that some
of the Internet dependencies have somehow been excised?  If so, how?

                -- Nat Mishkin
                   Apollo Computer Inc.
                   {uw-beaver, wangins, yale}!apollo!mishkin