Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: bidirectional named pipe? | From | Doug McNaught <> | Date | 09 Feb 2001 20:37:44 -0500 |
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"David L. Nicol" <dnicol@cstp.umkc.edu> writes:
> According to the Understanding the Linux Kernel book I > plowed through yesterday afternoon the EXT2 file system > has a defined file type "socket," distinct from fifo. > > How does one set up a named socket in a file system? Is it > a legacy constant that has never been supported or what? >
Call bind() on an AF_LOCAL (aka AF_UNIX) socket.
About as far from legacy as you can get...
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