On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 10:25:07PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
Wouldn't it be a lot more elegant if open() on a Unix socket was
equivalent to socket() / connect() ?
Yes -- but it would be non-portable and thus not a good idea IMO.
Write a wrapped to socket/connect and all is ms_open if you want
something like that.
That would mean that server apps that now use a named pipe (fifo)
for their clients to connect to could move to a Unix socket without
changing the client at all, but they would be able to get at
the client credentials using SO_CRED
Nice, but as I said -- non-portable therefore of questionable value
right now (IMO).
--cw
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