On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> writes:
>> A datagram socket (SOCK_DGRAM) is called "UDP Socket" when it
>> assumes IP (AF_INET) or IPv6 (AF_INET6) as it's underlying
>> protocol.
>> But you can always use SOCK_DGRAM over AF_LOCAL.
>
> I'm unconvinced that that has the same semantics on all platforms.
> Unix pipes traditionally have different behavior with respect to
> blocking, partial message send, etc.
Are you worried about posix local sockets in general? Or are you
worried about doing sock_dgram over posix local sockets?
just some more thoughts...
- libpq uses posix local sockets (even streaming) as default if
available and no hostname is given. I'd be more worried about
my data...
- posix local sockets have been around for ages and I'd rather
rely on posix local sockets than any IPv6 protocol implementation.
- it's the same API on top of them
- it's posix these days
- it could be configurable/optional
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Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT
