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From: jdb@mordor.ARPA (John Bruner)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: UNIX domain sockets ?
Message-ID: <6928@mordor.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 14-May-86 18:14:39 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 14 18:14:39 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 16-May-86 06:38:38 EDT
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Reply-To: jdb@mordor.UUCP (John Bruner)
Organization: S-1 Project, LLNL
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Aside from issues of speed, UNIX domain sockets provide a capability
(no pun intended) that Internet domain sockets do not.  It is possible
to pass file descriptors between processes using UNIX domain datagrams.
-- 
  John Bruner (S-1 Project, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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