Unicodification of wxDataStreams

[wxWidgets.git] / docs / latex / wx / tipc.tex

diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/tipc.tex b/docs/latex/wx/tipc.tex
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--- a/docs/latex/wx/tipc.tex
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@@ -20,6 +20,16 @@ for programming popular Internet protocols.
 
 Further information on these classes will be available in due course.
 
+Notice that by including {\tt <wx/ipc.h>} you may define convnient synonyms for
+the IPC classes: {\tt wxServer} for either {\tt wxDDEServer} or 
+{\tt wxTCPServer} depending on whether DDE-based or socket-based implementation
+is used and the same thing for {\tt wxClient} and {\tt wxConnection}. By
+default, DDE implementation is used under Windows. If you want to use IPC
+between the different workstations you should define {\tt wxUSE\_DDE\_FOR\_IPC}
+as $0$ before including this header -- this will force using TCP/IP
+implementation even under Windows.
+
+
 wxWindows has a high-level protocol based on Windows DDE.
 There are two implementations of this DDE-like protocol:
 one using real DDE running on Windows only, and another using TCP/IP (sockets) that runs
@@ -48,8 +58,14 @@ element of some messages. To create a connection (a conversation in
 Windows parlance), the client application sends the message
 MakeConnection to the client object, with a string service name to
 identify the server and a topic name to identify the topic for the
-duration of the connection. Under Unix, the service name must contain an
-integer port identifier.
+duration of the connection. Under Unix, the service name may be either an
+integer port identifier in which case an Internet domain socket will be used
+for the communications or a valid file name (which shouldn't exist and will be
+deleted afterwards) in which case a Unix domain socket is created.
+
+{\bf SECURITY NOTE:} Using Internet domain sockets if extremely insecure for
+IPC as there is absolutely no access control for them, use Unix domain sockets
+whenever possible!
 
 The server then responds and either vetoes the connection or allows it.
 If allowed, a connection object is created which persists until the