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

						-Matt

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