Last change to non-XCB libX11 breaks KDE

[Alan Coopersmith]

Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> 
>>  When opening display, if LOCALCONN fails, fall back to UNIXCONN, then 
>> TCPCONN
> 
> I'm curious to know why both named pipes and unix-domain sockets
> are supported in Solaris.
> 
> Is there a performance penalty with local sockets?  And if so, is
> it Solaris specific?

When named pipes were added to X on Solaris (in Solaris 2.6 in 1997 if
I remember correctly), they were faster than Unix domain sockets - I
believe the Unix domain sockets are now tuned up to the same speed or
faster in current Solaris releases.

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