Hi!
Not a long time ago, Mulix gave a lecture about daemons in which he
demonstarated how he wrote a signature generating daemon, that write a
random signature to a named pipe. However, he did say that if more than
one process opens the named pipe simlutaneously the result is unexpected.
Which got me thinking: why not use a Unix-domain socket which supports
more than one simultaenous distinct connections. The main reason of course
is that cat ~/my-unix-domain-socket.sock won't work, because one should
use connect() to open it instead of open(). But if it could?
Why not make an open call on a UNIX-domain socket generate an implicit
connection to it, and then we can use the file descriptor to read and/or
write to it. That way cat ~/my-unix-domain-socket.sock and various other
programs that are only file aware will work.
I suppose there isn't anything in the POSIX standard that allows it, but
it would be a nice hack.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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