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diff --git a/PC/os2emx/README.os2emx b/PC/os2emx/README.os2emx index 4238382..ffc5181 100644 --- a/PC/os2emx/README.os2emx +++ b/PC/os2emx/README.os2emx @@ -641,6 +641,14 @@ There are no guarantees to thread safety with this emulation - beware! The emulation was written to support a link() based file locking system used in GNU Mailman. +26. AF_UNIX sockets, otherwise known as Unix domain sockets, are now +supported. Unfortunately, there are some traps arising from the +implementation in IBM's TCP/IP stack:- +- the path name must start with '\\socket\\' ('/socket/' won't work!), + with the length of the full path name less than 108 characters; +- unlike Unix, the socket endpoints don't exist in the filesystem; +- by default, sockets are in binary mode. + ... probably other issues that I've not encountered, or don't remember :-( If you encounter other difficulties with this port, which can be @@ -680,4 +688,4 @@ Andrew MacIntyre E-mail: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au, or andymac@pcug.org.au Web: http://www.andymac.org/ -2 December, 2003. +11 April, 2004. |