Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 14:19:09 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: James Howard <howardjp@well.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: telnet to AF_UNIX sockets [PATCH] Message-ID: <200105251319.f4PDJ9g04298@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> of "Wed, 23 May 2001 17:16:18 PDT." <200105240016.f4O0GI318985@earth.backplane.com>
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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
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> 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.
pppctl(8) does this too.
> -Matt
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