A couple of annoying F8t3 things

[John Summerfield]

Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 18:03 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
>> Rodd Clarkson wrote:
>>> socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0)         = 10
               ^^^^
>>> connect(10, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/tmp/.ICE-unix/2546"}, 21) = 0
>> That's (almost certainly) so fifo - a named pipe, It's used to talk to 
>> something else on the same host (even it a fifo is on a network 
>> filesystem, it doesn't go over the wire).
> 
> It's a unix-domain socket, but yes, it's a local socket connection.

Unix sockets are AF_UNIX. Weird, innit?



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