[Info-vax] Unix equivalent of a mailbox device ?

[John Wallace]

On Nov 27, 2:40 am, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>
> >http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~beej/guide/ipc/usock.html
>
> Many thanks to all who contributed to this. As there is no UNIX "wall",
> finding out how unix works and finding the doc isn't so easy.

There may not have been a UNIX wall, but man pages have been around
for a very long time.

More useful in the DEC UNIX world was DEC's Tru64 shelf (and its CD
equivalent), and on it you would find the Tru64 Guide to Realtime
Programming.

That Guide covers a great many of the subjects being discussed here,
in particular it covers POSIX stuff (which should be largely vendor
independent). It covers them in the traditional DEC documentation
manner: correct, comprehensive, readable. No "dummies" here, the
people writing the books work with the people writing the code in the
OS who work with (or are) the people defining the standards.

The Guide to Realtime is also online, the PDF is currently at:
http://h30097.www3.hp.com/docs/base_doc/DOCUMENTATION/V51B_ACRO_DUX/ARH9TCTE.PDF

Have a look, see if it's helpful.