Dear APR Support Team,
some time ago I made the strategic decision to port my software:
http://libmsgque.sourceforge.net/
to APR by able to use all of the nice features.
Some days ago I finally start to do this job ... but today I got a massive
disappointment ...
You ask why ?
It's the UNIX Domain Socket issue !!!
well Unix-Domains are very beautiful in terms of usability
you only have to create the "sockaddr_un" as part of "sockaddr"
and you can use the same code you allready written for
network sockets to use local sockets
The main advantages are:
1. 50% faster as network sockets (on linux)
2. absolute secure -> no network access
now the problem:
APR does not support Unix Domain Sockets
First I couldn't belief it but than I start checking the internet
and found something suspicious
1. many user already request UDS Sockets
2. but the APR team says Windows has no UDS -> it's not cross-platform
-> we'll not support this
Now You get my Answer:
1. It's a problem of MS not supportting UDS and not a problem of UNIX to
offer them
2. In fact the MS management decides that they don't want to support
UDS and using the backdoor of APR they force the UNIX to not support
them too
3. There was still a possibility to introduce a non-portable code to offer
UDS -> that was not done
-> some members of the APR team force me not to use UDS
than you remember I will give away part of my knowledeg (using APR)
and as result they force me to do something what I don't want
I will not delete my UDS specific code just to use APR
Now my offter -> You support UDS until 5 Feb 2009 and I'll use your library
mfg
Andreas Otto
