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Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 18:12:46 +1300
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: bidirectional named pipe?
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On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 03:10:08PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

    I would really like it if open() on a socket would be the same
    thing to connect to a socket as a client.  I don't think it's a
    good idea to do that for the server side, though, since it would
    have to know about accept() anyway.

things like this (non-portable hacks) belong in libc surely?



  --cw
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