Re: localpipe

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: localpipe
Date: 2006-02-27 17:31:16
Message-ID: 200602271831.17873.peter_e@gmx.net
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Andreas Pflug wrote:
> Hm, easily mixed up with localhost, which uses a socket too. But we
> don't have the space for 'local unix socket' either.

The official terms are such that sockets in the file system namespace
are AF_LOCAL (or AF_UNIX), and sockets in the Internet namespace are
AF_INET. So using "local (domain) socket" or "Unix (domain) socket"
would be reasonable. (Both are used by PostgreSQL.) A pipe on the
other hand is created by the pipe() function and does not have a socket
or a namespace since it is internal to the creating process, which is
the distinguishing characteristic between a pipe and a socket.

--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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