[TUHS] networking on unix before uucp

Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com
Sat Aug 23 06:16:35 AEST 2014


On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 06:37:59AM +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Aug 2014, Larry McVoy wrote:
> 
> > > 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...
> > 
> > lmbench has one:
> 
> Yeah, that's pretty much what we did.  Conceptually, the client said 
> "please connect me to Sydney's pogo stick server", and the server said "I 
> am the Sydney pogo stick server".  

If anyone wants the stuff we use, the stuff mentioned above, I can put it
up on the web.
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