Re:Introduction to TCP and Sockets (2001)
by nly on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @11:58AM
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> A proper server needs that "accept" abstraction, which is completely missing from pipes.
You can receive file descriptors over a UNIX socket, but yeah. That said I don't see why a file descriptor is a good abstraction for a listening socket in the first place when you don't read() or write() to it.
You can receive file descriptors over a UNIX socket, but yeah. That said I don't see why a file descriptor is a good abstraction for a listening socket in the first place when you don't read() or write() to it.