Re: [clisp-list] How to open a UNIX socket with clisp?

[Raymond T. <to...@rt...>]

>>>>> "Sam" == Sam Steingold <sd...@gn...> writes:

    >> * In message <153...@si...>
    >> You can't create a UNIX socket from the shell, as far as I know.  You
    >> can't interface with them normally via 'cat' and such, either, like
    >> you can with a FIFO.  They're quite a pain in the butt, huh?  :)

    Sam> ouch...

    Sam> at any rate, unless someone tells me how do I know whether "/foo/bar" is
    Sam> a socket, there is nothing I could do.

On Solaris, there's a S_ISSOCK (see stat(5)).  I assume this is how ls
knows that /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 is a socket and prints a = after it.

Ray