[TUHS] My BSDcan talk

Paul Ruizendaal pnr at planet.nl
Sun Jun 7 21:41:41 AEST 2020


> On 6 Jun 2020, at 18:01, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
> 
> You mentioned that BBN Vax code did not use it.  I've forgotten than how parameters like IP addresses were passed down?  I had thought that Rob had it also in at least one version of the BBN code, as I remember talking to him about it at one point; but I have frankly forgotten.

In the surviving source code, BBN VAX TCP re-purposed the ‘mode’ parameter of open() to be a pointer to a block with connection data (“struct con”). Details are here:
https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=BBN-Vax-TCP/doc/net.5.P




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