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Sorry, what's brawndo? (Searching only gives me movie results?) We started out discussing AF_UNIX vs. AF_INET6. If you can conceptually use something faster th

• exe34 2y ago
  it's what plants crave! it's got electrolytes.
• sgtnoodle 2y ago
  You can do some pretty crazy stuff with pipes, if you want to do better than unix sockets.
  • zbentley 2y ago
    Sure, but setting up a piped session with a pre-existing sidecar daemon can be complicated. You either end up using named pipes (badly behaved clients can mess up other clients’ connections, one side has to do weird filesystem polling/watching for its accept(2) equivalent), or unnamed pipes via a Unix socket with fdpass (which needs careful handling to not mess up, and you’re using a Unix socket anyway, so why not use it for data instead?).