[PATCH v2 0/6] Some AF_UNIX fixes
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu Oct 15 08:16:12 GMT 2020
On Oct 14 12:39, Ken Brown via Cygwin-patches wrote:
> On 10/13/2020 7:49 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Oct 8 17:36, Ken Brown via Cygwin-patches wrote:
> > > On 10/4/2020 12:49 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin-patches wrote:
> > > > I'm about to push these. Corinna, please check them when you return.
> > > > The only difference between v2 and v1 is that there are a few more
> > > > fixes.
> > > >
> > > > I'm trying to help get the AF_UNIX development going again. I'm
> > > > mostly working on the topic/af_unix branch. But when I find bugs that
> > > > exist on master, I'll push those to master and then merge master to
> > > > topic/af_unix.
> > >
> > > FYI to Corinna and anyone else interested in AF_UNIX development. After
> > > pushing a few patches to the topic/af_unix branch I did some cleanup
> > > (locally) and merged master into the topic branch. I don't want to do a
> > > forced push and risk messing up the branch, so I've created a new branch,
> > > topic/af_unix_new, and will do all further work there until Corinna returns
> > > and decides how we should proceed.
> >
> > No, that's ok, just force push.
>
> OK, I've done that now. The branch contains a few sendmsg fixes, a first
> cut of a recvmsg implementation, and a merge from master. I've done some
> testing of recvmsg, but many things are not yet tested. I'll work on
> continued testing next.
This is sooo great!
> from Kerrisk's book, because that's what I read to learn the basics of
> sockets. But those are just examples and are not meant to be comprehensive.
What Mark and Brian said, Stevens' book is quite nice, and there's
code available. I downloaded the tar file with all code examples
way back when, but apparently the code is on github now, as Brian
pointed out.
Thanks,
Corinna
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