[erlang-questions] Unix domain sockets

[Daniel Goertzen]

Unfortunately, the documentation implies that this is not allowed:

eisdir The named file is not a regular file. It may be a directory, a fifo,
or a device.
I'm a little dismayed at this; I was planning on using a char driver soon by
opening it as a file and then attaching a port to it with
open_port({fd,...).  I guess I will be doing it a different way...  Likely a
whole port program.

Dan.

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Sargun Dhillon <xbmodder@REDACTED> wrote:

> Apparently this doesn't work for character or block devices, see here:
> [running beam as root]
> 1> FOut = file:open("/dev/net/tun", [read, write]).
> {error,eisdir}
> 2> FOut1 = file:open("/dev/net/tun", [read, write, raw]).
> {error,eisdir}
> 3> FOut3 = file:open("/dev/sda", [read, write, raw]).
> {error,eisdir}
> 4> FOut3 = file:open("/dev/sda", [read, write]).
> {error,eisdir}
>
> lucifer ~ # ls -l /dev/net/tun
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 10, 200 Mar 30 16:51 /dev/net/tun
> lucifer ~ # ls -l /dev/sda
> brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 0 Mar 30 09:27 /dev/sda
>
> Any ideas on how to read this? Do I need to break out a port driver?
>
> 2009/3/8 Antoine Koener <antoine.koener@REDACTED>:
> > And what about the support for NamedPipes on windows ?
> > Anyone with experience ?
> > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 3:24 AM, Richard Andrews <bbmaj7@REDACTED>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> IIRC there was a UNIX socket project in jungerl too.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> > There's an example driver for unix domain sockets under
> >> > $OTP_ROOT/lib/kernel/examples/uds_dist/
> >> >
> >> > (It's still there in R13A-0, BTW.)
> >> >
> >> > It used to be documented in the Interoperability Tutorial, but
> >> > I think they've switched to a different example now.
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