AF_LOCAL? (Was: Re: adding rsockets support into JDK)

David Lloyd david.lloyd at redhat.com
Wed May 23 13:23:25 UTC 2018


Related to this:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2017/12/19/af_unix-comes-to-windows/

This means that we'd (eventually) be able to bring this to Windows as well.

On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 8:04 AM, David Lloyd <david.lloyd at redhat.com> wrote:
> Given the precedent of RDMA sockets, what about introducing
> LocalSocketAddress/ProtocolFamily.AF_LOCAL (nee AF_UNIX) support, for
> those platforms which support it?  Is this something that could, at
> this point, be realistically approved, were it proposed and
> implemented?
>
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 4:08 PM, Lu, Yingqi <yingqi.lu at intel.com> wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I have created a JBS to propose adding rsockets support into JDK so that all
>> Java based applications can take advantage of RDMA (Remote Direct Memory
>> Access).
>>
>> [...]
>
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