John D. Hardin wrote: > On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Windows does not have anything like UNIX domain sockets. The >> closest thing to it would be a TCP server listening on 127.0.0.1 >> and only accepting connections from 127.0.0.1 - but that has the >> same overhead as any other TCP socket. > > ...named pipes?
Ooh, good one. UNIX has named pipes too... but Windows named pipes are closer to UNIX domain sockets than they are to UNIX named pipes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_Pipes -- Matthew.van.Eerde (at) hbinc.com 805.964.4554 x902 Hispanic Business Inc./HireDiversity.com Software Engineer
