XWinrc configurable server (menus/icons)

[Ralf Habacker]

Hi all,

>
> The most recent patch looks pretty good from your description.
>
> > c) Replaces %display% with 127.0.0.1:<display>.0 in commands
>
> Huh, I was going to say that %display% should be replaced with
> "127.0.0.1:0.0", but then I remembered that we know the "0.0", but we
> don't know that the user connected via "127.0.0.1".  However, should we
> just choose to replace display with "127.0.0.1:d.s" where d is display
> and s is screen?  I know that some users report better performance when
> using their actual ip instead of lookback for DISPLAY...

... because the performance of cygwin's tcp implementation is more than twice as
much as the unix domain implementation.
I assume that this is caused by the additional security and emulation stuff
overhead, which is needed to implement unix domain sockets on top of tcp
sockets.

See http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-01/msg01719.html for further
details.

Ralf