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From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca>
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Subject: Re: telnet to AF_UNIX sockets [PATCH] 
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>>>>> "Matt" == Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> writes:

    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

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