mksock

Makes a named socket.

• Introduction
• Installation
• Components
• Examples
• Project Information
  • Where to get help
  • Contribution guidelines
  • Dependencies
    • Tests-only Dependencies
  • Related projects
  • License

mksock is a small, standalone utility program that creates a named socket, which can be useful when testing file-system utilities and libraries (such as recls).

Detailed instructions - via CMake, via bundling, via custom makefile parameters - are provided in the accompanying INSTALL.md file.

The project creates a single executable program, mksock.

$ pwd
mksock /tmp/mysocket.sock 0777
$ ls -al /tmp/
 . . .
srwxr-xr-x   1 mwsis  wheel     0B 11 Mar 19:34 mysocket.sock
 . . .
$

GitHub Page

Defect reports, feature requests, and pull requests are welcome on the mksock GitHub page.

mksock depends on:

• CLASP;
• STLSoft 1.10;

For unit-testing, mksock depends additionally on:

• Catch2 - for the unit-test specification and results assessment;
• xTests - for utility components;

Other (similar) project include:

• chomp
• errni
• lstrip
• rstrip

mksock is released under the 3-clause BSD license. See LICENSE for details.