From: patl@cag.lcs.mit.edu (Patrick J. LoPresti)
Date: 23 Oct 2000 15:28:58 -0400
OK, but my current syslogd only listens to /dev/log as a
SOCK_DGRAM. If I wanted reliable syslogging, it would be listening
on it as a SOCK_STREAM.
SOCK_DGRAM over AF_UNIX is reliable, it's a local transport.
With AF_UNIX the only real difference between SOCK_DGRAM and
SOCK_STREAM is whether writes must be atomic. F.e. for the SOCK_DGRAM
case if you try to perform a write() larger than the socket buffer
size you'll get a EMSGSIZE return, whereas for the same example in
the SOCK_STREAM case the kernel will chop up the message for you and
send over the pieces seperately to the peer socket.
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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