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Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 17:16:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
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To: James Howard <howardjp@well.com>
Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>,
	Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: telnet to AF_UNIX sockets [PATCH]
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:On Wed, 23 May 2001, Matt Dillon wrote:
:
:>     Nice one!  I'm going to be using this all over the place myself.
:
:I am missing something here.  Is there a practical use for this? :)
:
:Jamie

    Many programs these days use unix-domain sockets as a rendezvous
    for IPC between processes.  Being able to connect to such sockets
    for monitoring, debugging, development, etc...  can be very useful.

						-Matt

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