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Date:      Thu, 24 May 2001 14:53:06 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
Cc:        Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: telnet to AF_UNIX sockets [PATCH] 
Message-ID:  <20010524215306.D9665380C@overcee.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <200105242104.f4OL4K432062@earth.backplane.com> 

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Matt Dillon wrote:
> :    Matt> But unix-domain sockets are
> :    Matt> extremely useful in all manner of applications
> :
> :They're also anywhere from 10-400% faster than PF_INET for connections
> :to the localhost (it varies a lot between different UNIX
> :implementations).
> :
> :--lyndon
> 
>     What, you don't think we should be doing the TCP protocol over a
>     localhost socket? :-) :-o :-) ;-o.

Damn right. :-)  Linux doesn't seem to (for what that's worth).

Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5


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