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  From: David Lloyd <lloy0076@rebel.net.au>
  To  : Alex Wilkinson <valex@senet.com.au>
  Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 11:59:25 +1030

Re: /var/tmp

Alex!

> In /var/tmp I have come accross a strange directory, it is called
> orbit-valex/ all the files are of type socket.

I suspect it's got something to with GNOME's Object Request Broker. Mine
appear in /tmp/orbit-lloy0076/. What is an ORB?

A dynamically linkable library only links functions, procedures and
possibly variables (but don't quote me on the last one). On the other
hand, an Object Request Broker:

1) generally works over a network
2) generally serves object-oriented objects

It's a way of sharing objects over a network that GNOME and gtk+ can
use. ORBit - the lightweight ORB in GNOME - creates this directly and my
guess is that it's used so that objects can talk to each other. It
obviously uses named pipes.

DL
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