Unix domain accept() and getperrname() doesn't return the client address.

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mar  8 16:23, Noel Grandin wrote:
> On 2013-03-08 15:29, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >You can call connect on both sides. But ultimately you're right, I
> >guess. I never thought about it that way, and it seems nobody used
> >AF_LOCAL datagrams so far. Weird. The problem is that the
> >underlying protocol is AF_INET because Windows doesn't support
> >AF_LOCAL.
> 
> If you're using UDP as your underlying protocol, UDP already
> contains a port you can reply to.

Yes, but the port isn't available to the application which opened a
AF_LOCAL connection.  If recvfrom returns an AF_INET name, it's rather
tricky to convert it into an AF_LOCAL name for a subsequent sendto call.

[...time passes...]

Or... are you suggesting that recvfrom returns some kind of fake AF_LOCAL
name, which can be converted back to AF_INET by sendto on the fly?


Corinna

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