From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 24 14:53:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peter3.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [65.0.135.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11AF637B423 for ; Thu, 24 May 2001 14:53:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f4OLr6M94027 for ; Thu, 24 May 2001 14:53:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9665380C; Thu, 24 May 2001 14:53:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Matt Dillon Cc: Lyndon Nerenberg , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: telnet to AF_UNIX sockets [PATCH] In-Reply-To: <200105242104.f4OL4K432062@earth.backplane.com> Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 14:53:06 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20010524215306.D9665380C@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message