s6-networking
Software
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The s6-ipcserver program

s6-ipcserver is an UCSPI server tool for Unix domain sockets, i.e. a super-server. It accepts connections from clients, and forks a program to handle each connection.

Interface

     s6-ipcserver [ -1 ] [ -q | -Q | -v ] [ -d | -D ] [ -P | -p ] [ -c maxconn ] [ -C localmaxconn ] [ -b backlog ] [ -G gidlist ] [ -g gid ] [ -u uid ] [ -U ] path prog...

Environment variables

For each connection, an instance of prog... is spawned with the following variables set:

If client credentials lookup has been disabled, IPCREMOTEEUID and IPCREMOTEEUID will be set, but empty.

Options

Signals

Notes