Re: XWinrc configurable server (menus/icons)

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Ralf,

If my IP is w.x.y.z vs. my loopback of 127.0.0.1, how is one of these 
using unix domain sockets and the other using tcp/ip?

Harold

Ralf Habacker wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
> > The most recent patch looks pretty good from your description.
> >
> >
> > > c) Replaces %display% with 127.0.0.1:<display>.0 in commands
> >
> > Huh, I was going to say that %display% should be replaced with
> > "127.0.0.1:0.0", but then I remembered that we know the "0.0", but we
> > don't know that the user connected via "127.0.0.1".  However, should we
> > just choose to replace display with "127.0.0.1:d.s" where d is display
> > and s is screen?  I know that some users report better performance when
> > using their actual ip instead of lookback for DISPLAY...
>
>
> ... because the performance of cygwin's tcp implementation is more than twice as
> much as the unix domain implementation.
> I assume that this is caused by the additional security and emulation stuff
> overhead, which is needed to implement unix domain sockets on top of tcp
> sockets.
>
> See http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-01/msg01719.html for further
> details.
>
> Ralf