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- Submitted-by: sklower@okeeffe.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Sklower)
-
- The POSIX process-to-process communications working group (P1003.12)
- would like to solicit outside comment.
-
- The committee wishes to publish an interface at the level of exposed
- detail exhibited by both sockets and XTI. Previously, the committee
- had been of the opinion that although both sets of existing practice
- were relatively similar, each had technical flaws. Furthermore,
- each had a user community unwilling to give theirs up and adopt
- the other.
-
- The working solution the commitee had been pursuing was to combine
- the the best features of the two interfaces, changing the names and
- semantics of the primitives, so that some amount of re-coding would
- be necessary. The committee was using as its model the level of
- modification done to the job control and termios facilities of P1003.1
-
- There has recently been vociferous opposition to this plan, arguing
- that vendors would have to support THREE interfaces (sockets, XTI
- and POSIX) and it would be better to have the P1003.12 committee
- issue IEEE standard versions of the existing two, with possible
- backwards compatible extensions and improvements.
-
- We invite you to submit your reactions to dot12@okeeffe.Berkeley.EDU
- for consideration by the committee. It would be helpful to some of us
- if you would say something about your background or experience with
- either of XTI or sockets.
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 22, Number 19
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-