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authorLaurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org>2015-01-15 20:14:44 +0000
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+<h1> The <tt>s6-ipcclient</tt> program </h1>
+
+<p>
+<tt>s6-ipcclient</tt> is an
+<a href="http://cr.yp.to/proto/ucspi.txt">UCSPI client tool</a> for
+Unix domain sockets. It connects to a socket, then executes into
+a program.
+</p>
+
+<h2> Interface </h2>
+
+<pre>
+ s6-ipcclient [ -q | -Q | -v ] [ -p bindpath ] [ -l localname ] <em>path</em> <em>prog...</em>
+</pre>
+
+<ul>
+ <li> s6-ipcclient connects to a Unix domain socket on <em>path</em>. </li>
+ <li> It executes into <em>prog...</em> with descriptor 6 reading from
+the socket and descriptor 7 writing to it. </li>
+</ul>
+
+<h2> Environment variables </h2>
+
+<p>
+ <em>prog...</em> is run with
+the following variables set:
+</p>
+
+<ul>
+ <li> PROTO: always set to IPC </li>
+ <li> IPCLOCALPATH: set to the path associated with the local socket,
+if any. Be aware that it may contain arbitrary characters. </li>
+</ul>
+
+<h2> Options </h2>
+
+<ul>
+ <li> <tt>-q</tt>&nbsp;: be quiet. </li>
+ <li> <tt>-Q</tt>&nbsp;: be normally verbose. This is the default. </li>
+ <li> <tt>-v</tt>&nbsp;: be verbose. </li>
+ <li> <tt>-p&nbsp;<em>localpath</em></tt>&nbsp;: bind the local
+socket to <em>localpath</em> before connecting to <em>path</em>. </li>
+ <li> <tt>-l&nbsp;<em>localname</em></tt>&nbsp;: use <em>localname</em>
+as the value of the IPCLOCALPATH environment variable. </li>
+</ul>
+
+<h2> Notes </h2>
+
+<ul>
+ <li> s6-ipcclient is mostly used to connect a client to a
+<a href="localservice.html">local service</a> without having
+to implement networking in the client. For instance, the
+<a href="s6-sudo">s6-sudo</a> program does this. </li>
+</ul>
+
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