[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gullik Bj<F8>nnes) wrote:
> I am not sure if you know the difference between UNIX sockets and BSD
> sockets. BSD sockets is used for networking and accessing computers
> and otherplaces in the network, when you connect to a BSD socket you
> connect to a ip number and a port. UNIX socket on the other hand is
> more similar in functioniality to named pipes, but all the semantics
> are similar to BSD sockets, so for UNIX socket you connect to a
> filename and if you don't have access to that file, bad luck on you.
>
> For the programmer there are no or small differences between BSD and
> UNIX sockets (except for the connect). Where named pipes only can
> communicate (sanely) with only _one_ program at a time, sockets can
> communicate with as many as you wish. For us this means that you can
> have several progs using the lyxserver at the same time without
> stepping on each others toes.
emx has only BSD sockets support. Well, OS/2 named pipes can be
accessed from multiple cliants if the server takes care of them...
(In fact you can create many pipes of the same name.)
I'm not ready to determine anything on this. Please continue
the discussion.
Regards,
SMiyata
