[Interest] QLocalSocket bug?

[jhihn at gmx.com]

-----Original message-----
Sent: Wednesday, 06 January 2016 at 01:51:46
From: "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
To: interest at qt-project.org
Subject: Re: [Interest] QLocalSocket bug?
On Tuesday 05 January 2016 18:49:44 Jason H wrote:
> > It seems that win32 implementation of QLocalSocket is not so good, there
> > are many issues which prevent plain replacement of QTcpServer/Socket by
> > QLocalServer/Socket
> Why can't you just connect through loopback interface? (127.0.0.1)

Because TCP is a lot more complex and expensive than AF_UNIX streaming 
sockets.
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True,  but he was also previously complaining that QLocalSocket is not derived from QAbstractSocket.  It seemed reasonable.  The various local socket implementations aren't as consistently cross platform as one would hope.