From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 25 6:19:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [194.222.196.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1A7937B422 for ; Fri, 25 May 2001 06:19:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4PDJBY24557; Fri, 25 May 2001 14:19:11 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4PDJ9g04298; Fri, 25 May 2001 14:19:09 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200105251319.f4PDJ9g04298@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Matt Dillon Cc: James Howard , Alfred Perlstein , Lyndon Nerenberg , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: telnet to AF_UNIX sockets [PATCH] In-Reply-To: Message from Matt Dillon of "Wed, 23 May 2001 17:16:18 PDT." <200105240016.f4O0GI318985@earth.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 14:19:09 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > : > :On Wed, 23 May 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: > : > :> Nice one! I'm going to be using this all over the place myself. > : > :I am missing something here. Is there a practical use for this? :) > : > :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. pppctl(8) does this too. > -Matt -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message