Re: flag to use tor

[Richard Stallman]

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  > If so, according to its README. Maybe you can use a shell wrapper to
  > launch emacs

  > #+BEGIN_SRC
  > #!/bin/sh
  > export LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/libtorsocks.so
  > exec -a "$0" emacs "$@"
  > #+END_SRC

  > Emacs, and its subprocess would inherit this environment variable and
  > allow torsocks to intercept network connection and force them in Tor.

I tried a simpler version which simply runs Emacs (and GDB) under
torsocks.

At first it seemed to work.  It worked for network sockets.
But then I found operations that failed because they used local sockets.
It seems that torsocks causes even local sockets to try to go via tor 

As a result, commands like invoking the browser (to tell the
already-running browser instance to visit a certain URL) fail.

Is there a wizard that knows a way to affect only network communication?


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Dr Richard Stallman
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