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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: QT for Windows released under GPL
From:       Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira () kdemail ! net>
Date:       2005-02-11 2:10:55
Message-ID: 200502110010.56303.thiago.macieira () kdemail ! net
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Jason Keirstead wrote:
>No UNIX sockets is for sure a bad thing in WIn32.  But it is nothing you
> could not work around ( look at Java - there are many JDBC drivers, for
> instance, that will use a UNIX socket when in use in UNIX, and a TCP
> socket when in use in Windows (when you are making a local DB
> connection of course) ).

True, I had thought of that. But, applications and libraries expect to 
give sockets whatever names they want. That will most surely have to 
change.

Also, Unix sockets have a built-in protection mechanism due to filesystem 
paths. No one but root and the owner can access /tmp/kde-$USER. With 
AF_INET sockets, there's no such protection. 

It shouldn't be a problem, though... even if such protection did exist, 
Windows users log in as Administrator or with Administrator-privileged 
accounts. And Windows workstations are generally not multiuser.

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