Re: Local Connection Handshake?

It has been a while, but I don't remember there being a handshake for 
connecting to services in general.

I vaguely remember one specific service where the client first has to 
send a specific message before doing most other things else but that was 
a rather service-specific thing.

My guess for the reason of the absence of a handshake, is that usually 
there would be no information to include in the handshake (except 
perhaps proof of what user/group is connecting, but that's not part of 
the bytes).

Well, I suppose you could say there exists a 'Berkeley handshake' in a 
similar way to a 'TCP handhake' existing if (non-localhost) TCP were to 
be used instead, but that doesn't seem to be what you mean and would be 
more a matter for an operating system or kernel forum than a GNUnet 
mailing list.

Best regards,
Amélie Devos