On Jan 19 08:48, Henri wrote: > Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes: > > On Jan 18 18:10, Henri wrote: > > > Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes: > > > > > > > There's no firewall involved if a simple socket call goes wrong. > > > > For AF_LOCAL Cygwin opens an AF_INET socket, but which is unbound > > > > until you call bind or connect. > > > > > > s/AF_INET/AF_UNIX/ ????? (sorry for my intrusion) > > > > AF_UNIX == AF_LOCAL. Not available on Windows so needs emulation. > > The emulation uses local-only AF_INET sockets. > > You are correct ... I simply misread your communication. > > What POSIX refers to as AF_LOCAL, and SUSv3 refers to as AF_UNIX, is > an 'Unix Domain socket' ... and of course, that type of socket needs > to be emulated on Windows. > > Clear. Sorry for the noise ...
No worries, it's better asking if something's unclear. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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