Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes: > > On Jan 18 18:10, Henri wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes: > > > > > There's no firewall involved if a simple socket call goes wrong. > > > For AF_LOCAL Cygwin opens an AF_INET socket, but which is unbound > > > until you call bind or connect. > > > > s/AF_INET/AF_UNIX/ ????? (sorry for my intrusion) > > AF_UNIX == AF_LOCAL. Not available on Windows so needs emulation. > The emulation uses local-only AF_INET sockets.
You are correct ... I simply misread your communication. What POSIX refers to as AF_LOCAL, and SUSv3 refers to as AF_UNIX, is an 'Unix Domain socket' ... and of course, that type of socket needs to be emulated on Windows. Clear. Sorry for the noise ... Henri -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
