On 16/02/07, Shamir Udi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
off course they are not, they are UDP.
Where is UDP involved, except maybe in spirit? These are not network sockets, they are anonymous unix-domain sockets which means that the connection is reliable and that the kernel can tell when there is nobody left who can send a message to that process (just like in stream sockets or pipes and in retrospect, with SOCK_SEQPACKET). Still it seems that it sticks to the semantics similar to UDP/IP, though it's not obvious from unix(7). Looking at the source (http://lxr.linux.no/source/net/unix/af_unix.c#L1800, if I got it right) explains the difference. Thanks, --Amos
