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What few people mention is that IO::Socket doesn't work under Solaris (I believe that Sun has hardcoded the constants to non-standard values or similar rubbish) and you get stuck with using Socket

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Re: IO::Socket
by vek (Prior) on Dec 05, 2001 at 20:36 UTC
    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.
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      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.
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        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: $!";

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        Thanks for the info,

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