On quarta-feira, 10 de outubro de 2012 11.03.21, Kevin Krammer wrote: > Not related to performance, but often the main reason to use techniques > such as QLocalSocket is better access control. > Any process (running as any user) on the machine can attempt a connect to a > TCP socket on the loopbar device, while e.g. Unix domain sockets can be > created such that only processes of the same user can attempt connections.
True. What's more, you can use SO_PEERCRED and file-descriptor passing on Unix sockets, but you can't on TCP sockets. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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