[KLUG Members] unix domain sockets

Adam Williams members@kalamazoolinux.org
11 Oct 2002 12:30:25 -0400


>I'm sure there's an easy answer I've just not found yet, but how do I
>connect my stdin and stdout to a unix domain socket. There is the
>program socket, but it seems to only do TCP/IP.

A domain socket isn't TCP/IP?  I thought it was a file of type "s" used
for communication between processes on the same host (whatever that
means these days)

Anyway you can use netcat or net-pipe to interact with sockets from the
shell or somewhere similiar.

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