RFC: Unix domain sockets.

[Michael Koch]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 12:13:31PM -0800, David Daney wrote:
> Has anyone thought about how to integrate support for unix domain 
> sockets into libgcj?
> 
> As far as I can tell they are not currently supported, but correct me if 
> I am wrong.
> 
> These are my current thoughts:
> 
> Create a new SocketAddress class for unix domain sockets (perhaps 
> gnu.java.net.UnixDomainSocketAddress).
> 
> To use them you would create either a Socket or ServerSocket with the 
> default constructor.
> 
> Then bind() and/or connect() passing UnixDomainSocketAddress instead of 
> InetSocketAddress.
> 
> The implementation would require some hacking in gnu.java.net.* but the 
> public interfaces (things in java.net) would not change.
> 
> What do you all think?

Well, this needs some more hacking in java.net as it depends on
SocketAddress objects being an InetSocketAddress object. SUN does the
same, I tested that at some point in past. To make unix sockets working
in java.net you have revisit most of the code and I dont know its
possible at all for some things.


Michael