On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Jeremy Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe that for unix stream sockets, you don't need to have a sending > socket file created, while you do for datagram sockets, as otherwise you > can't have a bidirectional connection. > > I have no problem with always using a random sending socket file, and > ignoring -p in the unix datagram case, if you think that is best. > Thinking more about it, -s would be more appropriate than -p anyway if > you did want to specify the source socket.
The part that's confusing me is, who is at the other end of this tmp socket? How do they know about it?
