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Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:13:27 -0500
From: "William A. Rowe Jr." <wrowe@rowe-clan.net>
To: Timo Rothenpieler <timo@rothenpieler.org>
Cc: dev@apr.apache.org
Subject: Re: Using UNIX domain sockets with apr
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On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 21:06:34 +0200
Timo Rothenpieler <timo@rothenpieler.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to use unix sockets with the apr socket functions, but it
> seems like it doesn't support that.
> In the current trunk there's an APR_UNIX define, which comes with
> additional code to make the socket api support unix sockets.
> 
> The commits it's in (745763 and 745764) are from 2009, but don't
> appear to be in any release or at least release branch.
> 
> Would it be possible to merge these patches to 1.4 and 1.5, so it's in
> the next releases?
> Or do I miss the right way to use unix sockets without these patches?

According to our versioning policy, no.

It's possible that this could appear in a 1.6.0 release if that happens
before 2.0.0 is released.