2 * socket.c - awesome client, communicate with socket, common functions
4 * Copyright © 2007-2008 Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>
5 * Copyright © 2007 daniel@brinkers.de
7 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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9 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
10 * (at your option) any later version.
12 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
13 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
15 * GNU General Public License for more details.
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19 * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
24 #include <sys/socket.h>
27 #include "common/socket.h"
28 #include "common/util.h"
30 #define CONTROL_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH ".awesome_ctl."
32 /** Get a sockaddr_un struct with information feeded for opening a
33 * communication to the awesome socket for given display
34 * \param display the display number
35 * \return sockaddr_un struct ready to be used or NULL if a problem occured
38 get_client_addr(const char *display
)
41 const char *real_display
= NULL
;
43 struct sockaddr_un
*addr
;
45 addr
= p_new(struct sockaddr_un
, 1);
46 homedir
= getenv("HOME");
49 if((tmp
= strchr(display
, ':')))
50 real_display
= tmp
+ 1;
52 real_display
= display
;
53 if((tmp
= strrchr(display
, '.')))
57 /* a_strlen(display) because we strcat on display and
59 path_len
= a_strlen(homedir
) + a_strlen(CONTROL_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH
)
60 + (a_strlen(display
) ? (a_strlen(real_display
)) : 1) + 2;
62 if(path_len
>= ssizeof(addr
->sun_path
))
64 fprintf(stderr
, "error: path of control UNIX domain socket is too long");
67 a_strcpy(addr
->sun_path
, path_len
, homedir
);
68 a_strcat(addr
->sun_path
, path_len
, "/");
69 a_strcat(addr
->sun_path
, path_len
, CONTROL_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH
);
71 a_strcat(addr
->sun_path
, path_len
, real_display
);
73 a_strcat(addr
->sun_path
, path_len
, "0");
75 addr
->sun_family
= AF_UNIX
;
80 /** Get a AF_UNIX socket for communicating with awesome
81 * \return the socket file descriptor
84 get_client_socket(void)
88 csfd
= socket(AF_UNIX
, SOCK_DGRAM
, 0);
91 perror("error opening UNIX domain socket");
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