On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > PS: Entirely unrelated question. When I start XWin from a conventional HD > full installation of Cygwin, on a broadband 24-hour internet-connected > machine, it evidently accesses the web. (I know this, because when Norton is > up and running, I can tell that XWin specifically asks permission to do so.) > Why does it do this? As far as I can tell, if I pull the broadband plug, > Cygwin and XWin still work ...) > It doesn't really access "the web".
Your display variable is set to localhost:0.0. localhost is 127.0.0.1, ie. a TCP/IP address. Thus, X11 uses TCP/IP for loopback communications. Even if you set your display variable to just :0.0, ie. use a local AF_UNIX socket (which -nolisten local defeats), it would still use TCP/IP because this is how Cygwin emulates local AF_UNIX sockets. Secondly, I think there is one piece of code that tries to look up your hostname via DNS. That may actually breifly access "the web" depending on your DNS configuration. HTH BTW, both of these questions that I answered for you are in the recent (< 3 month old) list archives. Please try searching them and google before posting. Thanks. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International Phone: 314-551-8460 Fax: 314-551-8444
