Re: Environment Variable weirdness
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote:
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: Nathan> It's faster to use a "UNIX domain socket" when all traffic is
: Nathan> local as you avoid some of teh overhead of an IP stack. Why
: Nathan> waste those milliseconds?
:
: Would you be willing to explain the technicalities behind that ? Sounds
: like a neat `optimization'. BTW, is this a Debian-specific feature ? I
: haven't seen this in RedHat.
I can't claim to have intimate knowledge of the inner workings of the
kernel code, but I seem to recall from APUE that there was a speed
difference ... I may have misunderstood. I'll have to find my copy
tomorrow.
At any rate, I can't imagine any speed difference WOULD matter more than
a few milliseconds ... there may be some security concerns ...
: Now for a networked system, you'd have to change the DISPLAY env var
: to allow remote X clients to display locally, right ?
... but you're going to use IP anyway :)
I use ssh port-forwarding to tunnel my remote X session. It
automatically sets DISPLAY for you (and it's already configured in
Debian).
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