Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 17:16:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: James Howard <howardjp@well.com> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: telnet to AF_UNIX sockets [PATCH] Message-ID: <200105240016.f4O0GI318985@earth.backplane.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0105232009590.27087-100000@y.glue.umd.edu>
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:On Wed, 23 May 2001, Matt Dillon wrote:
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:> Nice one! I'm going to be using this all over the place myself.
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:I am missing something here. Is there a practical use for this? :)
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:Jamie
Many programs these days use unix-domain sockets as a rendezvous
for IPC between processes. Being able to connect to such sockets
for monitoring, debugging, development, etc... can be very useful.
-Matt
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