From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: erik quanstrom Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 07:11:59 -0400 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] URI scheme for 9P2000 resources In-Reply-To: <009a9ae2f5f2a8e9baaa3bd932012eb0@quintile.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8e9fe07a-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > > Wouldn't a heuristic be enough here? if the host specified is the localhost > then forst try to attach to a Unix domain socket, if that fails then try > an IN connection to the localhost instead, the port number would become > the socket's path. this would lead to nondeterministic behavior. suppose you want to talk to an authentication service and you expect one to be running on the local machine. this could lead to some unpleasant suprises. i would think that using local instead of tcp would be much preferable. - erik