Re: IO::Socket

[vek]

IO::Socket actually does work under Solaris. I've been using it for XML servers on 4 different Solaris boxes ranging from 5.6 to 5.8. It's actually really sweet.

[tradez]

I actually have done the same, and have successfully coded many a daemon to run on solaris systems. Sun can be very nice to you when you learn to use it.

[Ea]

The suspense is killing me. How did you get it to work? I was trying to connect as a client to my collegue's daemon written in C which created and was listening on /tmp/mysocket all done on Solaris 7. Yesterday, I was sure that I had read that Sun had hard-coded values, but today all I can find in the docs is the Camel book mentioning that ancient Perl scripts had values hard-coded (which, over time, mutated into "It's not my fault after all").

Here's the code for the curious

$socketname = "/tmp/mysocket";
socket(SOCK, PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0)   or die "socket: $!";
connect(SOCK, sockaddr_un($socketname)) or die "connect: $!";

Thanks for the info,

Ea :wq