Yes, you can do it with unix sockets. Not sure about the latency, but you can pass the listen sockets in advance, rather than having one process accept()ing inc

Yes, you can do it with unix sockets. Not sure about the latency, but you can pass the listen sockets in advance, rather than having one process accept()ing incoming connections and then passing those to other processes to handle. So unless you're binding to new ports all the time, it's all just a little extra startup work and won't impact the performance of the server.