[usocket-devel] Unix domain sockets

[Tobias C. Rittweiler]

Julian Stecklina <js at alien8.de> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I am currently implementing a D-BUS binding
> (http://github.com/blitz/cl-dbus) that needs a networking compatibility
> layer with support for TCP and local sockets. Not having to write
> implementation-dependent code to achieve this would be quite beneficial
> to the project.
>
> I'd like to ask, if there is any interest in integrating Unix domain
> sockets (AF_LOCAL) or Linux' abstract socket hack into usocket. 
>
> Regards,

I think usocket is supposed to be a portable layer on top of what Lisp
implementations offer. Whereas IOLib is supposed to provide you
finer-grained access to what your OS offers.

Take a look at IOLib at

  http://common-lisp.net/project/iolib/

it already comes with what you need.

  -T.