On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Tom Lane wrote:
"Bjoern A. Zeeb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
A datagram socket (SOCK_DGRAM) is called "UDP Socket" when it
assumes IP (AF_INET) or IPv6 (AF_INET6) as it's underlying
protocol.
But you can always use SOCK_DGRAM over AF_LOCAL.
I'm unconvinced that that has the same semantics on all platforms.
Unix pipes traditionally have different behavior with respect to
blocking, partial message send, etc.
Are you worried about posix local sockets in general? Or are you
worried about doing sock_dgram over posix local sockets?
just some more thoughts...
- libpq uses posix local sockets (even streaming) as default if
available and no hostname is given. I'd be more worried about
my data...
- posix local sockets have been around for ages and I'd rather
rely on posix local sockets than any IPv6 protocol implementation.
- it's the same API on top of them
- it's posix these days
- it could be configurable/optional
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Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT
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