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| -rw-r--r-- | manual/socket.texi | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/manual/socket.texi b/manual/socket.texi index 4a7c411065..dbdb96eaf2 100644 --- a/manual/socket.texi +++ b/manual/socket.texi @@ -571,9 +571,10 @@ as file names. In the local namespace socket addresses are file names. You can specify any file name you want as the address of the socket, but you must have -write permission on the directory containing it. In order to connect to -a socket you must have read permission for it. It's common to put -these files in the @file{/tmp} directory. +write permission on the directory containing it. +@c XXX The following was said to be wrong. +@c In order to connect to a socket you must have read permission for it. +It's common to put these files in the @file{/tmp} directory. One peculiarity of the local namespace is that the name is only used when opening the connection; once open the address is not meaningful and |