Re: AF_UNIX Sockets Implementation based on GNU-Classpath

[Brian Jones]

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
-- 
Brian Jones <address@hidden>
http://www.haphazard.org/~cbj/