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From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com>
Subject: UNIX domain socket -> INET socket ?
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Two questions:

First, are UNIX domain sockets in any sense ``more efficient'' than
INET (IPv4) sockets?

Second, does there exist any freely available utility tool that would
allow one to connect up a UNIX domain socket to an INET domain socket,
e.g. so that the functionality of a program that talks only to UNIX
domain sockets could be made available over the Internet?