[Techtalk] puzzling netstat entry

[Malcolm]

On Wednesday 06 March 2002 09:25 am, Carla Schroder wrote:

One I can actually answer part of. :)

> So I poke around in /tmp, and there's all kinds of weird-looking
> entries:

> jpsock.131.1294

No idea what this is.

> an orbit-carla folder full of entries like this:
> orb-10318732521830392973

These are generally named pipes. "orbit" is a CORBA implemenation 
used by gnome applications (if I remember correctly). If you are 
running KDE apps you will see "mcop-xxxxx" too.

> So.....what the heck is all this?

Inter-application communication pipes for the most part.

Actual details of how CORBA works is rather beyond me, but there is 
probably something on orbit on the gnome website.


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