Re: 100% CPU on TCP servers (on Windoze).

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Indeed.  And what's more, I'd be very uneasy about letting the server
>> accept connections from outside my machine, so if that is ever made a
>> possibility, I agree with Stefan that it should be an option.

> The scheme I was thinking of implementing, proposed by Stefan the last
> time around, would force the outside machine to have access to a
> configuration file written by the server Emacs in order to know the
> authentication key. So it's a matter of having the right permissions.
> We're not talking about openly available TCP connections from some
> arbitrary machine.

Modulo security holes, of course, which is the crux of the matter.


        Stefan