Unix philosophy

Mark Callow msc at qubix.UUCP
Tue Sep 20 06:34:07 AEST 1983


You're right.  Someone has thought of it.  It's called  a socket and it's in
4.2bsd.  In the Unix domain a socket appears as a name pathname in the file
systems to which any process can connect a socket of it's own.  A pipe
is in fact implemented by creating a pair of sockets and connecting them.
-- 
	Mark Callow, Saratoga, CA.
	...{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!decwrl!
		      ...{ittvax,amd70}!qubix!msc
	decwrl!qubix!msc at Berkeley.ARPA



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