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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: QT for Windows released under GPL
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-02-11 17:28:57
Message-ID: 200502111829.04095.bastian () kde ! org
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On Friday 11 February 2005 03:10, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> 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.

That's not a portable assumption. It's the behavior on Linux, but other UNIX 
systems may not follow file system restrictions so it should not be relied 
upon.

Cheers,
Waldo
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