No way to access sockets from a shell script?

Posted Oct 22, 2010 1:42 UTC (Fri) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359)
In reply to: No way to access sockets from a shell script? by jengelh
Parent article: A netlink-based user-space crypto API

While I'm sure socat is an absolutely awesome program, I'm guessing it isn't precognitive, and so cannot support new address families and socket options until someone goes to the trouble of coding them in.

With suitably chosen file names, no such extra coding for the shell is needed.