Hi, On Tue, 08 May 2007, Scott Ledyard wrote:
> From a "just curious" standpoint, I still don't quite understand how a file > called "lock" can link to an IP:Port. I kind of think of a link being a > shortcut to another file located elsewhere. Is this the unix approach of > every device being a file? The lock appears to be a symbolic link pointed to a file called "127.0.0.1:+12658" in the firefox profile directory. This file doesn't actually exist so if you try to open it you get "file not found". I guess they've just used a symlink to store the ip address and port number of the X display connection. This doesn't have much significance -- it could just as easily be a file called lock with 127.0.0.1:+12658 as its contents. Gavin -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
