Python Network Programming

How to do it...

We launch a UDS server that binds to a filesystem path, and a UDS client uses the same path to communicate with the server.

Listing 3.9a shows a Unix domain socket server, as follows:

#!/usr/bin/env python # Python Network Programming Cookbook, Second Edition -- Chapter - 3 # This program is optimized for Python 2.7.12 and Python 3.5.2. # It may run on any other version with/without modifications. import socket import os import time SERVER_PATH = "/tmp/python_unix_socket_server" def run_unix_domain_socket_server(): if os.path.exists(SERVER_PATH): os.remove( SERVER_PATH ) print ("starting unix domain socket server.") server = socket.socket( socket.AF_UNIX, socket.SOCK_DGRAM ) server.bind(SERVER_PATH) print ("Listening on path: ...