Todd Vierling writes:
> On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Erik E. Fair wrote:
> 
> : Unless I have completely misunderstood you all, see /dev/log and syslogd's
> : source code.
> 
> Actually, the point of my proposal was to allow programs that
> _have_no_socket_support_ (read:  commercial programs in binary form only,
> usually under binary compatibility) have the ability to connect to a
> listening unix domain socket. 

Perhaps you want an extension of the portal file system stuff?

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