[TUHS] networking on unix before uucp
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Sat Aug 23 04:11:42 AEST 2014
On Fri, 22 Aug 2014, Ronald Natalie wrote:
> I hate the socket interface, at least once you use it's goofy interface
> on UNIX, it works mostly like a file descriptor.
In a previous slavery we had a simple socket library; the application did
little more than say whether it was a client or a server etc. I wish I
could steal that code now...
> The sucky one is Windows which has a socket interface but it's file read
> and write calls are completely incompatible.
Well, we mustn't imitate Unix, must we?
-- Dave
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