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Subject: Re: Synchronous signal delivery..
From: Keith Adamson <keith.adamson@attbi.com>
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On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 22:11, Keith Adamson wrote:
> 
> How about also including a connect()/bind() interface so that 
> you can sort of have a "sockets for signals" type interface.  
> This seems like a nice type of interface for synchronization.
> And maybe use send()/recv() instead of read()/write().  Or am 
> I on crack:)
> 

I guess what I'm trying to say is that if you want to generalize 
a synchronous signal delivery interface I think the networking 
interface is a better paradigm than the filesystem interface.



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