Sure, I made unix domain sockets optional because a) it was easy
and b) optional is good.
> Perhaps the config "help" function ought to make mention of the various
> critical daemons and applications which fail utterly in the absence of
> Unix sockets?
Sure, below is a patch to make things a bit more clear.
But as far as unix domain sockets being a module, I don't think
it needs any further justification. Modules are good, configuration
bugs are bad. Let's kill the configuration bugs.
-- Kirk Petersen speakeasy.org/~kirk/
--- Configure.help-old Tue Mar 17 20:15:38 1998 +++ Configure.help Tue Mar 17 20:17:00 1998 @@ -1847,7 +1847,8 @@ as a module, say M here and read Documentation/modules.txt. If you try building this as a module and you are running kerneld, be sure to add 'alias net-pf-1 unix' to your /etc/conf.module file. If - unsure, say Y. + unsure, say Y. (NOTE: X Windows and syslog probably won't work + if you say N to this or fail to configure it correctly) The IPv6 protocol CONFIG_IPV6
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