ausimian
uds_dist — Erlang distribution over Unix domain sockets
I’ve published uds_dist 1.0.0 to Hex
It’s a custom -proto_dist implementation backed by the :socket library for Unix Domain sockets. My use case is pretty narrow. I often want my services to support a local-only remote shell without TCP and without EPMD. On Linux, abstract namespace sockets are supported so there’s no filesystem entry to clean up.
It was modelled on lib/kernel/examples/erl_uds_dist from OTP, but with :socket instead of gen_tcp, and distribution protocol v6 only.
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hauleth
Why use
socketdirectly instead ofgen_udp?ausimian
The distribution protocol pretty much assumes a reliable ordered byte stream. Short of reinventing QUIC, I don’t think
gen_udpis an appropriate transport in this case, even for the local case.socketalso provides the abstract namespace support.krasenyp
gen_tcpcan also use thesocketmodule as a backend, and supports abstract namespace sockets.I’m just saying. Cheers for the release!
hauleth
I meant
gen_tcp. Sorry