Re: AF_UNIX Sockets Implementation based on GNU-Classpath

[Norbert Frese]

i think it should be a 'gnu.javax' library, because the 'java.net' library 
looks like it was designed for ip-sockets only.
please tell me, which package-name you would like - that i can start 
converting the sources.
what do you think of the package name

'gnu.javax.net.afunix'
or
'gnu.javax.net.uxlocal'?

besides it would be nice to allow classpath-independent building of the 
library - for using it with other vm's. i don't know about the legal issues 
here - for instance with the name 'gnu' - would it be possible to publish 
such a classpath-independent version via sourceforge?

norbert


At 18:46 20.11.2002 -0500, Brian Jones wrote:
> Norbert Frese <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > hi!
> >
> > i have just started to write a library to connect to
> > unix-domain-sockets (AF_UNIX) based on your java.net
> > library. (thanks to the people who the people who worked on this!)
> >
> > has nobody tried to write a library for this purpose before? i was
> > not able to find any solution for this problem on the internet. i
> > might need this for some personal project, but maybe AF_UNIX sockets
> > would be an interesting java-feature for a lot of people
> > (jdbc-drivers, component systems like openoffice uno...)
> >
> > it seems to be hard (or impossible?) to map an api for non_ip
> > sockets into the java.net api. maybe you have some ideas and help me
> > improving it.
>
> This work sounds interesting, in the same vein as efforts to bring
> full POSIX functionality to Java and there are a few efforts there.
> Are you suggesting some seamless way of opening sockets yet underneath
> classpath chooses a unix-domain-socket when appropriate or are you
> suggesting it would be a gnu.javax library that one explicitly uses?
>
> Brian
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> Brian Jones <address@hidden>
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