Re: [Tinyos-help] AF_UNIX

2006-05-22 Thread Michael Schippling
machine -Original Message- From: Michael Schippling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 1:37 AM To: Pradeep T Ramakrishna (WT01 - Broadband Networks) Cc: tinyos-help@Millennium.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: [Tinyos-help] AF_UNIX It's so old that I've forgotten the details

RE: [Tinyos-help] AF_UNIX

2006-05-21 Thread pradeep.ramakrishna
Networks) Cc: tinyos-help@Millennium.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: [Tinyos-help] AF_UNIX It's so old that I've forgotten the details but it's just one of the options for internal IPC. I believe it is basically a named pipe in the filesystem space. It's a convenient way to configure your IPC for local

[Tinyos-help] AF_UNIX

2006-05-19 Thread pradeep.ramakrishna
Hi , In socketswe say that the domain types are like AF_INET and AF_UNIX, the first is used for the Internet and the second one for the UNIX IPC,does it mean that to AF_UNIX domain is used to communicate with the process running in the same machine if yes during what secnarios do we use