On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Chet Ramey <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 3/7/10 9:09 PM, Norman Rasmussen wrote: > > I find /dev/tcp terribly useful, is there any planned support for unix > > sockets? > > Not at this time. One can use named pipes; they're already addressable > using the file system. > Sure, I was hoping to avoid spawning socat to connect to a unix-socket. (after finding that bash supports tcp internally I converted a bunch of my monitoring scripts to internal tcp, saving some minute amount of fork/exec overhead) -- - Norman Rasmussen - Email: [email protected] - Home page: http://norman.rasmussen.co.za/
