mishkin@apollo.uucp (Nathaniel Mishkin) (01/23/86)
I've been attempting to understand how the Berkeley socket mechanism
is intended to be used with non-Internet domain sockets, but it seems
like the naming issue has not been addressed generally. The framework
(e.g. the "sockaddr" struct type) is obviously designed to be
domain-independent, but in practice it seems hard to write
domain-independent programs. For example, the various network programs
(like "telnet") seem to be mightily tied to Internet-style addressing.
My understanding is that 4.3BSD supports XNS -- does this mean that some
of the Internet dependencies have somehow been excised? If so, how?
-- Nat Mishkin
Apollo Computer Inc.
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