From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] networking on unix before uucp
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 04:11:42 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1408230405450.42071@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7C276A71-2110-41C8-8BF7-3529321B11DC@ronnatalie.com>
On Fri, 22 Aug 2014, Ronald Natalie wrote:
> I hate the socket interface, at least once you use it's goofy interface
> on UNIX, it works mostly like a file descriptor.
In a previous slavery we had a simple socket library; the application did
little more than say whether it was a client or a server etc. I wish I
could steal that code now...
> The sucky one is Windows which has a socket interface but it's file read
> and write calls are completely incompatible.
Well, we mustn't imitate Unix, must we?
-- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-22 18:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-22 3:42 Mark Longridge
2014-08-22 15:09 ` Mary Ann Horton
2014-08-22 22:12 ` Cory Smelosky
2014-08-24 22:46 ` Clem Cole
2014-08-24 23:00 ` Clem Cole
2014-08-24 23:07 ` A. P. Garcia
2014-08-24 23:43 ` Clem Cole
2014-08-25 14:21 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-08-26 16:36 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2014-08-26 23:20 ` Clem Cole
2014-08-22 15:18 ` Dan Cross
2014-08-22 15:20 ` Dan Cross
2014-08-22 15:57 ` John Cowan
2014-08-22 16:06 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-08-22 18:11 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2014-08-22 17:51 ` Larry McVoy
2014-08-22 19:24 ` John Cowan
2014-08-22 20:37 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-08-22 20:16 ` Larry McVoy
[not found] ` <alpine.BSF.2.00.1408230659490.42071@aneurin.horsfall.org>
2014-08-23 2:30 ` Larry McVoy
2014-08-22 19:32 ` John Cowan
2014-09-02 19:15 ` [TUHS] portal daemon (was Re: networking on unix before uucp) Aaron J. Grier
2014-09-02 19:57 ` Clem Cole
2014-09-02 20:06 ` Erik E. Fair
2014-08-22 18:01 ` [TUHS] networking on unix before uucp Dave Horsfall
2014-08-22 13:27 Noel Chiappa
2014-08-22 13:32 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-08-22 13:35 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-08-22 16:35 Noel Chiappa
2014-08-23 3:08 Brian Walden
2014-08-23 18:02 ` Sven Mascheck
2014-08-23 19:32 ` Clem Cole
2014-08-24 4:59 ` Larry McVoy
[not found] ` <53FB4B6D.5070404@e-bbes.com>
2014-08-25 14:45 ` Larry McVoy
2014-08-25 15:22 ` A. P. Garcia
2014-08-25 15:49 ` arnold
2014-08-25 19:01 ` emanuel stiebler
2014-08-25 19:20 ` arnold
2014-08-25 20:00 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2014-08-25 21:06 ` John Cowan
2014-08-25 21:14 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2014-08-25 21:17 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2014-08-26 3:26 ` Larry McVoy
2014-08-26 6:17 ` arnold
2014-08-26 6:44 Jason Stevens
2014-08-26 16:56 Noel Chiappa
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