[erlang-questions] Unix domain sockets

[Tony Rogvall]

I did implement this a while ago

https://github.com/tonyrog/afunix

It is basically a specialized version of inet driver, using the same internal protocol and register in a 
way the gen_tcp api may be used directly. The drawback with this a approach is of course that this
driver must be updated every time the inet driver is updated, but I can not really se any other way
of doing this right now.

The api is very simple (afunix still lack any kind of documentation) and 
differ from gen_tcp only in the listen and connect functions.

afunix:listen(Name, Options)
afunix:connect(Name, Options)

The afunix specific functions are

afunix:get_peercred(Socket)
afunix:get_peerid(Socket)

Hope that it can be useful.

/Tony


On 21 mar 2014, at 05:32, Michael Truog <mjtruog@REDACTED> wrote:

> I also am disappointed that unix domain sockets lack support, but I am also disappointed there are more internal checks to prevent their use now.  I have been able to graft on support, but it isn't pretty (since it needs to avoid the internal prim_inet checks):
> https://github.com/CloudI/CloudI/blob/master/src/lib/cloudi_core/src/cloudi_services_external.erl#L1342-L1375
> https://github.com/CloudI/CloudI/blob/master/src/lib/cloudi_core/cxx_src/cloudi_socket_drv.cpp
> 
> When I add unix domain sockets this way, I do get an internal ERTS thread stuck at 100% CPU (somehow stuck in a tight loop) for unknown reasons, but it works fine otherwise.
> 
> On 03/19/2014 04:13 PM, James wrote:
>> 
>> five years later... and there is still no support for uds, only the uds_dist example, which does not even build on linux as it was evidently created for solaris. 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Wednesday, March 4, 2009 5:23:21 AM UTC-5, rvirding wrote:
>> I just saw a lament in twitter that Erlang doesn't support Unix domain sockets. Is that so? If not is there a nice link to some documentation explaining that we do and how to do it?
>> 
>> Robert
>> 
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