Yes, the Unix mantra is "everything's a file." But just because something's a file doesn't mean it has an entry in the file system. Files can be either named or unnamed, and Internet-family sockets are unnamed. The part of the unlink man page that mentions sockets is talking about named (unix-family) sockets, which are a horse of a different color.
On Apr 1, 2005 10:15 AM, Davion Kalhen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 31, 2005 3:40 PM, Mike Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have looked at the man page for unlink. Many times. It deals with the > > filesystem, not descriptors. > > I believe *nix's use files for streaming info, etc. So calling unlink > on the file that represents the players descriptor, will kill the > connection. Although, Mr. Bunting did not provide the code in which > strsave was initilzied to store the path to the descriptor, which > makes it very perlexing on how he actually gets unlink to remove that > file. > > Davion > -- > ROM mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom >
