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Subject: Re: [9fans] [OT] domain socket support in open(2) on unix
From: Geoff Collyer <geoff@collyer.net>
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Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 15:55:46 -0700
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It seems obvious that it should be possible to open existing
Unix-domain sockets like any other file.  They appear in the
file-system namespace, after all.  Other systems call them named pipes
or mounted streams.  It should be a trivial change to creat to create
Unix-domain sockets.

Of course, the whole range of socket-related system calls could be
replaced with /net, dial and cs, and this would eliminate arcane and
often buggy socket code from ordinary programs, allowing them to adapt
without recompilation to, for example, IP V6.