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Date:      Tue, 2 Jul 1996 09:20:08 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject:   Re: socketpair bug?
Message-ID:  <199607020720.JAA10893@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <96Jun30.222423pdt.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> from Bill Fenner at "Jun 30, 96 10:24:20 pm"

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As Bill Fenner wrote:

> >See also my Usenet reply: socketpair() basically needs a similar libc
> >syscall wrapper like pipe().  Right now, it uses the generic syscall
> >wrapper which is wrong.  (The XXX??'s can be removed again then. :)
> 
> I think the answer is the other way around -- socketpair() works as it
> is and just needs the two XXX'd lines removed, no need for it to have a
> wrapper like pipe().

It's documented to work similar to pipe(2) however.  Also, it looks
orthogonal to make both the same.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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