Re: using unix domain sockets

[Ajit Kumar]

David, do you have an example for the java code for dalvik vm. Do you use java.net.Socket/ServerSocket or android.net.LocalSocket/LocalServerSocket?

On Friday, March 30, 2012 6:30:12 AM UTC-7, David Given wrote:

Chris Stratton wrote:
[...]
> There is no requirement that both sockets be in the same process.  In
> the most common use cases, they they are not.

We're using Unix sockets to communicate between two processes (one side
is a Dalvik VM, the other is a daemon process started with fork), and it
all works fine.

However, bear in mind that a Java LocalSocketAddress actually refers to
an abstract socket address, not a filesystem one --- from the C side,
the first byte of the address must be a \0. See the man page.

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[David Given]

Ajit Kumar wrote:
> David, do you have an example for the java code for dalvik vm. Do you
> use java.net.Socket/ServerSocket or
> android.net.LocalSocket/LocalServerSocket?

Sorry, I should have been clearer: both sides of our code are native, so
we're not using Java. I have used androdi.net.LocalSocket in the past
but don't have any code handy, sorry.

(You have to use android.net.LocalSocket as java.net.Socket doesn't
support Unix domain sockets. However... there's nothing to stop you
connecting to localhost if you prefer to use Socket: it's marginally
less efficient than a Unix domain socket, but only very slightly.)

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