X forwarding: trying to forward to busy local port

[Marc Aurele La France]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Darren Tucker wrote:

> The wrinkle is that some xlibs (or xauths?) do special things with the
> string "localhost", eg map it to a Unix domain socket.

This isn't so, except perhaps for some proprietary X implementations.  In 
fact, display names of "localhost:<n>", instead of ":<n>" force the use of 
TCP/IP.  This is so for both XFree86 and X.Org.

Marc.

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