1 Nov
2018
1 Nov
'18
11:20 a.m.
On Thu, 1 Nov 2018, Pierre DAVID wrote:
Do you *really* think that IPC System V primitives are
better than
sockets?
Nope; they're even worse, which I didn't think was possible. The one
saving grace (IMHO) of SysV was the TTY driver and its cleaner interface.
I did see a proposal a while back (can't remember where/when) to use
something like open("/dev/net/host/port", ...) to establish a network
connection (or a server with appropriate flags), in much the same way that
device files are created dynamically.
With Unix, everything looks like a file, but as I said, the sockets API
broke that convention, forcing users to work at a much lower level than
necessary.
I suppose that around now someone will say that Plan 9 fixed all that :-)
-- Dave