On Thu, 12 May 2005, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote: > > But they don't differ in addressing. In BSD sockets the difference > between streams and packets lies in "socket type", while addresses > are split into "address families" which bijectively correspond to > "protocol families".
I believe there are some obscure protocol families that have more than one address family, which is why the two concepts exist in the API. However there's an enormous amount of code that muddles them up, but this doesn't matter for the Internet protocols. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://dotat.at/ BISCAY: WEST 5 OR 6 BECOMING VARIABLE 3 OR 4. SHOWERS AT FIRST. MODERATE OR GOOD. _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
