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| author | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2014-04-30 12:41:44 +0200 |
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| committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2014-04-30 12:41:44 +0200 |
| commit | 51be2dee214da567a1558bfbd321c5a7dc08f3e2 (patch) | |
| tree | 6edf162aae944f8ca37ad62000b4555b7d408e9f /hurd/networking.mdwn | |
| parent | c105cd27111444f3d35e495515ea90ab78e0ac7f (diff) | |
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| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/networking.mdwn | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/hurd/networking.mdwn b/hurd/networking.mdwn index e1bebec5..2f13813a 100644 --- a/hurd/networking.mdwn +++ b/hurd/networking.mdwn @@ -10,7 +10,11 @@ is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] For each supported `PF_*` protocol family (domain), there is a file `/servers/socket/N` -where `N` is the numeric value for the `PF_*` symbol. libc's socket(), socketpair() and friends use `hurd_socket_server` to open them: the latter computes the `/servers/socket/N` path, then open it a return the result. Since those paths are translated (see showtrans on `/servers/socket/N`), it's a port to a translator which is returned. Right now +where `N` is the numeric value for the `PF_*` symbol. libc's `socket()`, +`socketpair()` and friends use `_hurd_socket_server` to open them: the latter +computes the `/servers/socket/N` path, then opens it with `__file_name_lookup`, +and returns the result. Since those paths are translated (see showtrans on +`/servers/socket/N`), it's a port to a translator which is returned. Right now [[`PF_LOCAL`|translator/pflocal]] (a.k.a. `PF_UNIX` or `AF_UNIX`) `N=1`, [[`PF_INET`|translator/pfinet]] (a.k.a `AF_INET`) `N=2` and [[`PF_INET6`|translator/pfinet/ipv6]] (a.k.a `AF_INET6`) `N=26` are supported. |