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
8 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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.
17 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
18 * with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
19 * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
25 #include <sys/socket.h>
30 #include "common/socket.h"
31 #include "common/util.h"
33 #define CONTROL_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH ".awesome_ctl."
35 /** Get a sockaddr_un struct with information feeded for opening a
36 * communication to the awesome socket for given display
37 * \param display the display number
38 * \return sockaddr_un struct ready to be used or NULL if a problem occured
41 socket_getaddr(const char *display
)
43 char *homedir
, *host
= NULL
;
44 int screenp
= 0, displayp
= 0;
45 ssize_t path_len
, len
;
46 struct sockaddr_un
*addr
;
48 addr
= p_new(struct sockaddr_un
, 1);
49 homedir
= getenv("HOME");
51 xcb_parse_display(NULL
, &host
, &displayp
, &screenp
);
55 /* + 2 for / and . and \0 */
56 path_len
= snprintf(addr
->sun_path
, sizeof(addr
->sun_path
),
57 "%s/" CONTROL_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH
"%s%s%d",
58 homedir
, len
? host
: "", len
? "." : "",
63 if(path_len
>= ssizeof(addr
->sun_path
))
65 fprintf(stderr
, "error: path of control UNIX domain socket is too long");
69 addr
->sun_family
= AF_UNIX
;
74 /** Get a AF_UNIX socket for communicating with awesome
75 * \return the socket file descriptor
78 socket_getclient(void)
82 csfd
= socket(AF_UNIX
, SOCK_SEQPACKET
, 0);
84 csfd
= socket(PF_UNIX
, SOCK_STREAM
, 0);
88 warn("error opening UNIX domain socket: %s", strerror(errno
));
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