On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 5:42 AM Paul Ruizendaal <
pnr@planet.nl> wrote:
> On 6 Jun 2020, at 18:01, Clem Cole <clemc@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
That's... clever? Gross? I don't even know how I'd want to react to this... which likely means "too clever for its own good" :)
In any event, I've created a short, 2:00 correction to my talk. I'll have the conference organizers tack onto the end before they upload it to youtube.
If people care :)
Thanks everybody for corrections...
Warner