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Re: Support for /dev/unix
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Norman Rasmussen |
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Re: Support for /dev/unix |
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Wed, 5 May 2010 17:34:39 +0100 |
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> On 3/7/10 9:09 PM, Norman Rasmussen wrote:
> > I find /dev/tcp terribly useful, is there any planned support for unix
> > sockets?
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> Not at this time. One can use named pipes; they're already addressable
> using the file system.
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Sure, I was hoping to avoid spawning socat to connect to a unix-socket.
(after finding that bash supports tcp internally I converted a bunch of my
monitoring scripts to internal tcp, saving some minute amount of fork/exec
overhead)
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