>Moreover, the lame SEQ_number design in T_CONN_IND/T_CONN_RES has >complex interactions with fork and UID changes that frankly cannot be >fixed. It's a shame it exists at all.
Nor could sockets be properly retrofitted on top of it because the amount of state the library needs to keep per file descriptor. (And this was a problem for the TLI/XTI code also; it kept state which really belonged with the filedescriptor, in the kernel) >> Also, the TLI stuff tends to be better documented; >> I shouldn't have to buy a copy of Stevens' networking books to figure >> out how to use sockets to pass an fd over an AF_UNIX socket.) > >I think filing a bug against the documentation would be more >productive than trying to re-warm the TLI leftovers. Yeah. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
