[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated binaries for Xfree86 4.1.0

Suhaib Siddiqi ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com
Sun Jun 17 05:48:00 GMT 2001


> 
> > Rob
> >
> > UNIXCONN includes sys/un.h headers, which TCPCONN uses only
> socket.h.
> >
> > Do you think using sys/un.h and sys/socket.h, both, is necessary?
> Upto
> > Cygwin 1.1.2 I was using only TCPCONN and I did not notice any
> difference.
> 
> Well UNIX sockets are local only, which does have some security
> benefit.
> 
> > I would activate it once again if needed.  For now I want to see if
> > It helps those users who are having "accept () failed" errors on
> Windows
> > 95/98.
> 
> Ah ok. I like what Harold does with "TEST" releases to test this sort
> of
> change. It's my feeling that the main binaries shouldn't change to
> test
> things for users.
> 
> I recall chris asking about freeing space up - Chris, is there room
> for
> two copies of the XFree86 binaries - one "stable", one "testing" ?
> 
> Suhaib - if Chris has disk space for that, does that make sense to
> you?
> 
> Rob
> 


Well, since Chris said there is no space available, it is not feasible now.
For users who wants UNIXCONN, they need to edit xc/config/cf/cygwin.cf file,
and add UNIXCONN after TCPCONN for #define ConnectionFlags.  Then recompile
(make World).  None of the code had been disabled.

Suhaib



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