Richard_D_Levine@raytheon.com writes:
> Hi John,
>
> Unix sockets are a presentation layer interface to TCP/IP. You're not
> avoiding it by using them.
That's not true. Unix sockets are fundamentally different and do not
use TCP/IP at all. They have their own namespace (in the Unix
filesystem) and go through their own delivery path in the kernel, not
through the TCP/IP stack, so they're often faster.
But, they only work on a single machine. :)
-Doug