Connection caching?

[Damien Miller]

Dan Kegel wrote:
> Damien Miller wrote:
> 
> I seem to recall that unix domain sockets are a portability
> nightmare if you try to use long pathnames, but I guess
> you guys are doing it already with names like that, so
> maybe the systems where it was a problem are so obsolete
> nobody cares anymore...

I'm not aware of any problems that we have run into, but that doesn't
mean they don't exist. In any case, I don't think we should design for
the lowest common denominator.

> By the way, it'd be nice not only to be able to open a new
> login session, but also to open up a connection to a port
> on the remote machine.  (For instance, to a distccd running
> remotely.) 

You can do that now with port-forwarding, no?

-d