Does Linux and embedded Linux provides RAW socket?

Any idea, whether regular LInux or Embedded Linux provides RAW
socket?. We are buying some third party IPC API, they claim it is on
RAW socket based, I am wondering if we want to use that with embedded
linux, do we have to do port anything?. otherwise we have to have to
write IPC API which consumes lot of man power (socket, sendto, select,
recvfrom), thanks.

2007-04-10, 19:21(-07), GS:
> Any idea, whether regular LInux or Embedded Linux provides RAW
> socket?. We are buying some third party IPC API, they claim it is on
> RAW socket based, I am wondering if we want to use that with embedded
> linux, do we have to do port anything?. otherwise we have to have to
> write IPC API which consumes lot of man power (socket, sendto, select,
> recvfrom), thanks.

Linux has RAW sockets at least in the inet and inet6 protocol
families. But I'm not too sure that's what you're talking about.
Those are for cooking IP packets from raw, not for IPC.

See:

man 7 raw

on a Linux box.
http://man.linuxquestions.org/index....=raw&section=7

--
Stéphane

Steve,

Thanks fro reply, my question is: Is there any issue if we implement
IPC library using RAW sockets versus regular socket programming
(SOCK_DGRAM), this we need to use it on commercial embedded Linux OS.

Thanks.

On Apr 13, 12:21 pm, "GS" <globalsw...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Steve,
>
> Thanks fro reply, my question is: Is there any issue if we implement
> IPC library using RAW sockets versus regular socket programming
> (SOCK_DGRAM), this we need to use it on commercial embedded Linux OS.
>
> Thanks.


Why don't you use TIPC or LINX IPC API? Both are open sourced IPC on
Linux library.