Re: [ECOS] AF_UNIX in ecos

[Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>]

On 05/14/2011 11:03 AM, ratheesh kannoth wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Daniel Morris<danielm@ecoscentric.com>  wrote:
> > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 04:44:24PM +0530, ratheesh kannoth wrote:
> > > eCos support AF_UNIX sockets ?
> >
> > Round cheeses roll?
> >
> > http://www.gerv.net/hacking/how-to-ask-good-questions/
> >
> >   Daniel
> >
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>
> Daniel,
>
> I did some  experiment on  AF_UNIX support in eCos. I   have a  strange prob.
>
> int s = socket(AF_LOCAL, SOCK_DGRAM, 0 );
> sleep(120);
> int k = socket(AF_LOCAL, SOCK_DGRAM, 0 );
>
> The first socket system call fails with  errno 325( protocol not
> supported ). but second socket() call succeed . But, AF_INET socket is
> created without any error.
>
> http://www.ecoscentric.com/ecospro/doc.cgi/html/ref/net-common-tcpip-manpages-socket.html
>   mentions support of AF_LOCAL. But in ecos-3.0,
> packages/net/snmp/lib/v3_0/src/snmp_api.c : 165  says "no support for
> local sockets ".
>
> If anybody has some clue, greatly appreciated.

Local sockets, which are normally implemented using named pipes,
are not supported in eCos.

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