On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 01:35:20AM -0800, Keith Packard wrote: > > Around 10 o'clock on Nov 19, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > > > the only chance to get rid of it, is to use unix domain socket (via > > -nolisten tcp) > > That option should be the default; ssh refuses to listen on a unix > domain socket, but appears quite happy to connect to a unix domain > socket. > > I don't know of any compelling reason to run X raw over TCP/IP these days; > it's insecure, and a bandwidth pig.
AF_LOCAL sockets are implemented using AF_INET sockets on Cygwin, using a binding of 127.0.0.1 plus some overhead for security reasons. So AF_LOCAL sockets are a few percent slower than AF_INET sockets. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc.
