How to make pipe on RTEMS?

[Thomas Doerfler]

Hi Joel,

> 
> 
> Thomas Doerfler wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Vladimir,
> > 
> > >
> > > Thank You for answers, but now I have a question about sockets:
> > > Is it possible to make a socket of type AF_LOCAL under RTEMS?
> > 
> > no, it ain't. I have tried it out some weeks ago
> > because it would be a very fine replacement for
> > pipes, but it seems the AF_LOCAL address scheme
> > is not implemented in the RTEMS networking stack.
> 
> I don't know if this is the problem but ...
> 
> Do you have the loop driver in your configuration?

I had it configured (and in use) during my tests. 

A solution for my problem really was to establish a local 
server, connect it via loopback interface and perform scket 
communication then. Using the AF_LOCAL address space (and 
possibly a function like "socketpair") would have been a very 
elegant waxy of communication but unfortunately this is not 
available. I guess the main reason for this si, that AF_LOCAL 
would bind connections to local file nodes, and when Eric 
ported the networking stack, the file system was not yet 
available in its current flexible form.

wkr,
	Thomas.


> 
> > wkr,
> >         Thomas.
> > 
> > >
> > > Vlada
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