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diff --git a/hurd/networking.mdwn b/hurd/networking.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index bdf9def2..00000000 --- a/hurd/networking.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,33 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2000, 2008, 2010 Free Software Foundation, -Inc."]] - -[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable -id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this -document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant -Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation -License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] - -For each supported `PF_*` protocol family, there is a file `/servers/socket/N` -where `N` is the numberic value fo the `PF_*` symbol. Right now -[[`PF_LOCAL`|translator/pflocal]] (a.k.a. `PF_UNIX`) and -[[`PF_INET`|translator/pfinet]] (together with -[[`PF_INET6`|translator/pfinet/ipv6]]) are supported. - -User programs open those files, and use the `socket_create` [[RPC]] to make a -new socket. With that socket, they can use the other `socket_*` RPCs and also -the `io_*` RPCs. The `socket_*` RPCs are essentially clones of the [[Unix]] -[[system call]]s in question. - -The only exception is `sockaddrs`, which are implemented as [[ports|libports]] -instead of the opaque data arrays they are in the system calls. You manipulate -`sockaddr` ports with the `socket_create_address`, `socket_fabricate_address`, -and `socket_whatis_address` calls. The `sockaddr` port is then used in socket -calls like `socket_connect` and `socket_accept`. - -`PF_INET` `sockaddr` ports are manipulated with `socket_create_address` from -the usual `struct sockaddr_in`. `PF_LOCAL` `sockaddr` ports are stored by -`S_IFSOCK` filesystem nodes; you find the address associated with a node with -`ifsock_getsockaddr`. The [[file_system_server|translator]] will get a -`sockaddr` to return with `socket_fabricate_address`. |