On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 12:12:57PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I find it so weird, why isn't it just using socketpair() or
> > something?
>
> Checking the HPUX man page for it, I read "socketpair() is supported
> only for AF_UNIX", which suggests that it's not possible to get datagram
> semantics from it, at least on this platform.
SUS says that only AF_UNIX should be supported too:
The socketpair() function is used primarily with UNIX domain
sockets and need not be supported for other domains.
That does not prevent you to set the type to either SOCK_STREAM
or SOCK_DGRAM, or even SOCK_SEQPACKET however.
Kurt
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