NAME

Net::UNIX::Server - UNIX-domain sockets interface module for listeners

SYNOPSIS

use Socket;			# optional
use Net::Gen;		# optional
use Net::UNIX;		# optional
use Net::UNIX::Server;

DESCRIPTION

The Net::UNIX::Server module provides additional services for UNIX-domain socket communication. It is layered atop the Net::UNIX and Net::Gen modules, which are part of the same distribution.

Public Methods

The following methods are provided by the Net::UNIX::Server module itself, rather than just being inherited from Net::UNIX or Net::Gen.

new

Usage:

$obj = new Net::UNIX::Server;
$obj = new Net::UNIX::Server $pathname;
$obj = new Net::UNIX::Server $pathname, \%parameters;

Returns a newly-initialised object of the given class. This is much like the regular new methods of other modules in this distribution, except that it does a bind rather than a connect, and it does a listen. Unless specified otherwise with a type object parameter, the underlying socket will be a datagram socket.

init

Usage:

return undef unless $self = $self->init;
return undef unless $self = $self->init(\%parameters);
return undef unless $self = $self->init($pathname);
return undef unless $self = $self->init($pathname, \%parameters);

Verifies that all previous parameter assignments are valid (via checkparams). Returns the incoming object on success, and undef on failure. Usually called only via a derived class's init method or its own new call.

Protected Methods

[See the description in "Protected Methods" in Net::Gen for my definition of protected methods in Perl.]

None.

Known Socket Options

There are no socket options known to the Net::UNIX::Server module itself.

Known Object Parameters

There are no object parameters registered by the Net::UNIX::Server module itself.

Exports

default

None.

exportable

None.

tags

The following :tags are available for grouping exportable items:

:ALL

All of the above exportable items.

AUTHOR

Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>