Using UNIX sockets with Erlang

[Sean Hinde]

Hi Jérôme,

>   I'd like to use UNIX socket with Erlang but I did not
>   find any module (both within the release and in contribs)
>   supporting this.
> 
>   Can someone enlighten me? Has someone already implemented this?

There is a driver for UNIX domain sockets in the examples directory of the
kernel application. I would guess it should basically work but I've never
tested it or used it, and I'm pretty certain Ericsson don't test it
regularly..

There are some (incomplete) docs about it at:

http://www.erlang.org/doc/r7b/erts-5.0.1/doc/html/alt_dist.html#3

Good luck,
Sean

> -- 
> Jérôme Marant <jerome.marant@REDACTED>
>               <jerome@REDACTED>
> 



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