[haiku-development] Re: GSoC: Implement ZeroConf/Bonjour support

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Rene Gollent <anevilyak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>> It does.
>>
>> At least SOCK_STREAM sockets are supported, but those are the ones that are
>> mostly used.
>
> Is there any practical reason to use SOCK_DGRAM for a domain socket?
>

These are useful for example for commands sent from one application to
another in Unix, and other things were a packet of data makes more
sense than a stream of data. By the way, SOCK_DGRAM seems to be more
"similar" to BMessages than SOCK_STREAM.


Best regards,

Paulo Matias

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