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From: Paul Ruizendaal <pnr@planet.nl>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] My BSDcan talk
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2020 13:41:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <465A2942-5740-4B74-AF7E-8E58B37DC499@planet.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2M_VOM58EuCPnTzMdpshqUW6nQH+fKbj3F6gnZLHTqqdA@mail.gmail.com>


> 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



  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-07 11:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-06 14:55 Paul Ruizendaal
2020-06-06 16:01 ` Clem Cole
2020-06-07 11:41   ` Paul Ruizendaal [this message]
2020-06-07 20:03     ` Warner Losh
2020-06-07  5:15 ` Andrew Warkentin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-06-05 22:51 Warner Losh

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