Re: localpipe

[Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>]

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/