Re: How to determine whether client and server are on the same host

From	Malte Forkel <malte.forkel@berlin.de>
Subject	Re: How to determine whether client and server are on the same host
Date	2013-11-27 23:30 +0100
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Am 27.11.2013 00:37, schrieb Gregory Ewing:
>
> What would happen if you tried the file-based method when
> it wasn't a local connection? Is there a danger of it
> "succeeding" on the wrong machine and damaging something?
> 
I have been thinking about that.

There is a slight risk that the client might be talking to a server on a
remote host while there is a similar server running on the local
machine. That (local) server then might use a file by the same name as
the file on the remote server the client wants to operate on. In that
(unlikely) case I would mix up things big time...

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Re: How to determine whether client and server are on the same host Malte Forkel <malte.forkel@berlin.de> - 2013-11-26 12:26 +0100
  Re: How to determine whether client and server are on the same host Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2013-11-27 12:37 +1300
    Re: How to determine whether client and server are on the same host Malte Forkel <malte.forkel@berlin.de> - 2013-11-27 23:30 +0100

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