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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Why no socket package in the standard ?
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2011 13:06:59 +0200
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* Randy Brukardt:

> But one wonders about the wisdom of requiring a particular OS
> interface for Ada -- Ada is supposed to be target-independent.
> Perhaps it would be OK to reference a small piece of it.

For all its faults, there is no alternative to BSD sockets.  All
systems supporting TCP and UDP use those concepts, even if they are
very far away from the original UNIX concepts in other aspects.  Even
the XTI interface was retrofitted to match the BSD sockets concepts,
even though the TLI interfaces suggested a closer correspondence to
the TCP state in the network.