Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
>
> From: Ian Upright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> ian-list> What is the advantage of a named socket? Why not just use
> ian-list> an ordinary TCP/IP socket?
>
> Port space. What random port do you want to allocate today? With
> named pipes, they are represented in form of file names instead of
> ports. The space is simply very much larger, and easier to define
> in a somewhat elegant way.
They are also faster and inherently only accessible by localhost (err,
on Unix, anyway).
Cheers,
Ben.
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