UnixSocketAddress

Object Hierarchy:

Description:

public class UnixSocketAddress : SocketAddress, SocketConnectable

Support for UNIX-domain (also known as local) sockets, corresponding to `struct sockaddr_un`.

UNIX domain sockets are generally visible in the filesystem. However, some systems support abstract socket names which are not visible in the filesystem and not affected by the filesystem permissions, visibility, etc. Currently this is only supported under Linux. If you attempt to use abstract sockets on other systems, function calls may return `G_IO_ERROR_NOT_SUPPORTED` errors. You can use [ func@Gio.UnixSocketAddress.abstract_names_supported] to see if abstract names are supported.

Since GLib 2.72, `GUnixSocketAddress` is available on all platforms. It requires underlying system support (such as Windows 10 with `AF_UNIX`) at run time.

Before GLib 2.72, `<gio/gunixsocketaddress.h>` belonged to the UNIX-specific GIO interfaces, thus you had to use the `gio-unix-2.0.pc` pkg-config file when using it. This is no longer necessary since GLib 2.72.

Namespace: GLib

Package: gio-unix-2.0

Content:

Properties:

public bool @abstract { get; construct; }
Whether or not this is an abstract address
public UnixSocketAddressType address_type { get; construct; }
The type of Unix socket address.
public string path { get; construct; }
Unix socket path.
public ByteArray path_as_array { owned get; construct; }
Unix socket path, as a byte array.

Static methods:

public static bool abstract_names_supported ()
Checks if abstract UNIX domain socket names are supported.

Creation methods:

public UnixSocketAddress (string path)
Creates a new UnixSocketAddress for path.
public UnixSocketAddress.as_abstract (string path, int path_len)
Creates a new g_unix_socket_address_abstract_padded UnixSocketAddress for path.
public UnixSocketAddress.with_type (string path, int path_len, UnixSocketAddressType type)
Creates a new UnixSocketAddress of type type with name path.

Methods:

public UnixSocketAddressType get_address_type ()
Gets this's type.
public bool get_is_abstract ()
Tests if this is abstract.
public unowned string get_path ()
Gets this's path, or for abstract sockets the "name".
public size_t get_path_len ()
Gets the length of this's path.

Inherited Members:

All known members inherited from class GLib.SocketAddress

to_native

All known members inherited from class GLib.Object

All known members inherited from interface GLib.SocketConnectable

enumerate

proxy_enumerate

to_string