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From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: BSD Unix domain sockets (was Re: Here's the flame everyone's asking for)
Message-ID: <Mar.16.15.53.54.1988.13527@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Date: 16 Mar 88 20:53:57 GMT
References: <9100@ism780c.UUCP> <2329@umd5.umd.edu> <2009@ho95e.ATT.COM> <43@kenobi.UUCP> <997@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <47@kenobi.UUCP> <1082@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
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The problem is that when a UNIX socket creates a socket INODE they become
visible but are completely useless.  At one time I made a slight hack to
4.2 so that when you open a socket inode you get "connected" to the person
doing the listen.  I didn't get the code to remove the dead sockets though.

-ROn