> "Yes, some old-timers could argue that original UNIX didn't have sockets, > and that the BSD interface is ugly and an abomination and that it _should_ > have been a namespace thing, but that argument falls flat on its face when > you realize that the "pipe()" system call _was_ in original UNIX, and has > all the same issues."
appeal to the authority of the unix authors as a defense of sockets? surely someone has missed a bit. or another way, since the original was broken, we must not work correctly? i'm tempted to draw one of those ascii slashdot memes unix → \o/ | /\ woosh! - erik