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@ -641,6 +641,14 @@ There are no guarantees to thread safety with this emulation - beware!
The emulation was written to support a link() based file locking system
used in GNU Mailman.
26. AF_UNIX sockets, otherwise known as Unix domain sockets, are now
supported. Unfortunately, there are some traps arising from the
implementation in IBM's TCP/IP stack:-
- the path name must start with '\\socket\\' ('/socket/' won't work!),
with the length of the full path name less than 108 characters;
- unlike Unix, the socket endpoints don't exist in the filesystem;
- by default, sockets are in binary mode.
... probably other issues that I've not encountered, or don't remember :-(
If you encounter other difficulties with this port, which can be
@ -680,4 +688,4 @@ Andrew MacIntyre
E-mail: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au, or andymac@pcug.org.au
Web: http://www.andymac.org/
2 December, 2003.
11 April, 2004.