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Hi!

> > But no, I don't actually like sockets all that much myself. They are hard
> > to use from scripts, and many more people are familiar with open/close and
> > read/write.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> It would be nice to use open/close/read/write for control and bulk and
> sockets for interrupt and isochronous.

What makes interrupt so different? Last time I checked int pipes were very
similar to bulk pipes... Do you care about "packet boundaries"? You can
somehow emulate with read, too...
								Pavel

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