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From: gorpong@telxon.uucp (Gordon C. Galligher)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Internet and AT&T Unix
Summary: Can System V UNIX support Internet sockets??
Keywords: Internet, Sockets, System V
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Date: 5 Jun 89 20:30:48 GMT
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Reply-To: gorpong@telxon.UUCP (Gordon C. Galligher)
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I have a question which may seem quite childish to some of you.  I have a 
"logical" answer, but as is often the case with computers, the logical answer
is not always the correct one.  I am currently writing a program which needs
to open up a few Internet sockets and then accept requests from a strictly
local system program to talk to these internet systems.  (The "systems" are
just printers on a terminal server).  I have started building this in the
mind that it may be useful so I have put in hooks for both 4.xBSD sockets
and System V message passing.  As I started building the daemon which will
actually open up the internet ports, I realized that if this were a system V
system, it wouldn't have Berkeley sockets.

If this is the case, then all of the systems which are on the Internet are
strictly Berkeley systems (or hybrids like HP-UX or SunOS).  Is this the case?
Does some flavor of vanilla AT&T UNIX System V.x support Inet domain sockets?
Do I need to have this program this generic?  Could I just restrict it to
4.xBSD information?

I do apologize for this if it has already be discussed, and as I said, I
believe the logical answers for the above are:  yes, no, no, yes
but the logical is not always the correct one.  Please e-mail your responses
and if there is enough call for it, I will post my results.  Thank you very
much.

		-- Gordon.


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