Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

[Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net>]

On Apr 04, 2025, debian-user@howorth.org.uk wrote:
> Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
> 
> > I'm just going to assume that it worked similarly to traditional X
> > sessions (e.g. the ones on HP-UX), where it looked up the system's
> > hostname, and used whatever IP address that returned for connections
> > between the X client and server.
> 
> I'm confused. Traditional X sessions in my experience use a Unix socket
> rather than a TCP connection when they are on the same host and don't
> require the use of the hostname at all.
> 
>  $ xeyes -display :0.0

Greg's talking about "Traditional X Sessions" from HP-UX Unix boxes in
the late 80s / early 90s (I forget exactly when it showed up).

He's not talking about "Traditional X Sessions" in the sense of "as
opposed to Wayland" (or otherwise, "as implemented in Linux for the last
25 years or so").

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