sockets on sysVr3

Guy Harris guy at auspex.auspex.com
Sat Jul 14 03:32:12 AEST 1990


>	You're probably right, they're NOT THERE!  System V (whatever ver)
>has IPC (inter-process communications) calls not sockets

Wrong answer, next contestant please.

S5R4 *does* have the socket calls; they're implemented atop streams and
TLI.  S5R3, as it comes from AT&T, doesn't have sockets, but it does
have streams/TLI, which occupy pretty much the same ecological niche as
sockets.

Many TCP/IP packages for S5R3 come with a sockets emulation library,
although they probably emulate less of the behavior of sockets than does
the S5R4 emulation code.

The IPC calls do *not* occupy the same niche in most systems; they don't
work over networks.



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