Keith Packard wrote (in a message from Wednesday 23)
> > While supporting multiple -nolisten arguments is good, I suggest that the
> current '-nolisten tcp' should include both inet4 and inet6 tcp options; > most people use '-nolisten tcp' to avoid exposing an open port to the X > server to the network.
> > -nolisten inet4 don't listen for TCP/IPv4 connections
> -nolisten inet6 don't listen for TCP/IPv6 connections
> -nolisten tcp don't listen for any TCP connections
I also agree this makes sense.
I agree here, except that it looks like Sun and X.Org are using inet for IPv4, not inet4. I'm going to do this change.
We simply kept 'inet' for IPv4 since that is what has been used for years. Adding 'inet4' as an alias might be useful to reduce confusion if people find it confusing. (And since Solaris uses the single socket for both method, -nolisten tcp disables both there, but there is no method to disable IPv4 or IPv6 without the other. So far, no one has complained about this to us though.)
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